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.

Monday, October 25, 2010

10/25
Sonnets From Other Lives: Roger & Sherri

Commercial break.  Sher gets up to pee.
Roger wishes she would close the door.
Roger really needs the mystery
& there isn't all that much left anymore.
He'll have to dump her soon.  She knows too much.
Who he is.  Who he pretends to be.
He'll find a new girl--one who isn't such
an adept of his secret frailties.
Roger always loves the exposition
but bails just as the action starts to rise
to a climax--that awkward recognition
that someone else might matter in his life.

She seems to love him & for that he's sorry,
but he just can't wait to start another story.
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