by Nicholas Johnson

I'm one of the monkeys they've got typing

in a room full of monkeys. It's a play

Shakespeare wrote back in the old days

they want us to write again. So we're writing

a play we never read. They keep inviting1

strangers to watch us and the strangers say:

They wrote 'to be or nutti to be'! They stay

too long if we write something exciting

but the bananas flow like wine. We know

it's a crazy, morbid2, ranting3 play, a stew4

full of murder, love, but with a noble feel.

Shocked, I see hack5 monkeys come and monkeys go.

One keeper killed my father. What should I do?

I'm watching him. My teeth are as sharp as steel