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.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

10/24
Sonnets From Other Lives:  The CoolHunter

The CoolHunter stalks the city streets--
fashion forward--all senses alert.
Suddenly she simply has to meet
that cute boy in the black & white stripe shirt.
(It's sort of hipster PoMo Russian sailor/
gondolier--but not overtly gay)
Deftly she persuades him to regale her
with his brand preferences.  A video is made.
Her new I-Phone speeds up the process so,
the image reaches New York in real time.
By morning all the new patterns will go
by e-mail to Chinese assembly lines,
from whence the boy's unique, inventive look
will land in all the malls--safely precooked.
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