What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

10/19
Sonnets From Other Lives: Adam & Kane

The Lover's body's sprawled out on the sidewalk
where the killer's bullet emptied it of life.
The encounter started with a little talk
between the Husband and the lover of his wife.
It wasn't jealousy in this case--it was money.
She'd taken it & given it away.
The Lover read her well & thougth if funny
that he's scammed the Husband--finally made him pay
for setting him up back in '84
when the Husband hadn't given it a thought
as he sold him out.  That's what fall guys are for.
But the story didn't start there.  If you've got
enough time to stay with it then you can
trail this thread back to the Fall of Man.
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3 comments:

  1. P. A .HofmannOctober 19, 2010 at 8:25 PM

    This one is an experiment. I was wondering whether I could write a narrative that moved backwards in time---start with something and trace the events that led up to it. The rule is: After each event in the story, the next line has to be describing what happened BEFORE that event. I think I want to try this again with a story that is less formulaic and melodramatic.

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  2. Pat LichenOctober 24, 2010 at 5:44 PM

    Oh, I'm glad for this explanation--I confess I hadn't noticed the backward sequence..I just liked the surprise ending.

    Remember that backward Seinfeld episode? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697655/

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  3. P. A .HofmannNovember 3, 2010 at 8:11 PM

    OK I so have to check that out. It's like Memento with NY Jewish neurosis?

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