| [moment of birth; crowning (multiple senses)] | |
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one monkey is born |
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| [description of the moment I first held you and everything changed] | |
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one monkey falls in love with the heft of the club and swings and swings again and can’t stop swinging |
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| [anecdote illustrating your preternatural wisdom] | |
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one monkey discovers that constantly walking in tiny circles brings pellets more consistently than prayer |
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| [metaphor; life is a journey/onion/meal] | |
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one monkey returns each night to sleep one turn away from the center of the maze |
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| [parable; old man tells story; life is fleeting; etc] | |
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One monkey understands with his monkey mind that there’s a cage containing his own and it is somehow the smaller |
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| [closure making the poem all about me that sounds like it's all about you] | |
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one monkey grins all the time… not from happiness or sadness exactly but because she’s a monkey and that’s what monkeys do |
[pad 3.3 – 6/18/09]
Happy (belated) fathers day.