Thursday, July 06, 2006

He Saw

Miraculously, my friend Adam has seen some strange animal behaviour too. Can it be that this sort of thing is actually happening all the time, everywhere around us, but we are just not seeing it because we can't make sense of it?

I wonder where Adam was, to have seen that many unsuited monkeys ... a zoo maybe, a university laboratory, a jungle, a bible transcription warehouse ... and is he obliged to report* this potentially harmful conglomeration of dreamy, yet defiant, primatial nakedness?

One last question: are these monkeys on AWA's? Judging by the tone of their employer, it sounds like if they're not now they will be soon, god save them.


I saw a hundred monkeys on typewriters today
And they weren’t wearing suits
Pointing out their nakedness I insisted
“Find yourselves some uniforms or else find yourselves new work!”
And the monkeys gave no hoots

Dreaming free-spirited hallucinations
Bred from their rebellious act
These nine-to-fivers made art, though their suits had not attended
“Off with you!” I screamed, ‘Before the CEO finds out!”

But the monkeys dreamed on, un-offended


* To Channel 9, say, or Opus Dei.

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