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 4, 2010

10/4
Sonnets From Other Lives: Andrew

STUPID PEOPLE! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!
ONE WRONG WORD CAN SET THE WORLD ON FIRE!
ONE ERRATIC THOUGHT CAN TURN THIS SNOW
INTO FLAMING LAVA!  O DENIERS
CAN'T YOU SEE THE LIZARDS IN THE STREETS?
THE LIZARDS WITH THEIR GUNS & UNIFORMS?
THE SIDEWALKS MELTING UNDERNEATH YOUR FEET?
THE HOLE FROM WHICH THIS PIECE OF SKY WAS TORN?
O YOU WHO WOULD CONSPIRE TO STEAL MY WORDS,
TO SUCK THEM LIKE A SPIDER FROM MY MIND,
YOU DON'T SUSPECT AT ALL THAT I HAVE HEARD
YOUR THOUGHTS & PLOTS. O NO I AM NOT BLIND!
THE SIGNS ALIGN!  THERE'S NOWHERE YOU CAN GO!
STUPID PEOPLE!  YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)