monkey monkey

Once upon a time there was a monkey named Banana Head.
And one day he decided to go to the river so...
he grabbed onto a vine and he swang to the next tree.
Then he grabbed another vine and he swang to the next tree...and there was another monkey named...
strawberry face.
"Strawberry Face! Strawberry Face! I'm going to the river! Do you wanna come with me?"
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ok!"
So Banana Head and Strawberry Face grabbed onto a vine and they swang to the next tree.
Then they grabbed another vine and they swang to the next tree...and there was another monkey named...Lemon Lips.
"Lemon Lips! Lemon Lips! We're going to the river! Wanna come?"
"Ummmmm, I don't know..."
"Please!!!"
"Ummmmm, ok."
So Banana Head, Strawberry Face, and Lemon Lips grabbed onto the vine and they swang to the next tree. Then they grabbed another vine and they swang to the next tree...and there was another monkey named Grape Nose.
"Grape Nose! Grape Nose! We're going to the river wanna go?"
"Ummmmmmmm, no way!"
"Please!!!"
"Ummmmm, ok."
So Banana Head, Strawberry Face, Lemon Lips, and Grape Nose grabbed onto the vine and they swang to the next tree. Then they grabbed another vine and they swang to the next tree and there was another monkey named Pineapple Hair.
"Pineapple Hair! Pineapple Hair! We're going to the river. Wanna come?"
"Ummmmm, okey dope."
So Banana Head, Strawberry Face, Lemon Lips, Grape Nose, and Pineapple Head grabbed onto the vine and they swang to the next tree. Then they grabbed another vine and they swang to the next...
and they fell swoosh into the river! And they swam and they played and they ate watermelon and they fell asleep on the warm sand on the shore and took a nap. And everyone was so very happy that they went to the river. The end.

and the na...cy and the ch....ea and the me....an and the me and the then and the now

And married at twenty.
And baby at twenty one.
And another in twenty one months.
And another two years later.
Maybe that's when her oneness was completed.
Six, maybe seven years after vows.



After hours.
In the irrelevant darkness spread between bedroom walls
Cockeyed passers by disregarding voiced pain
voiced agony
voiced loneliness
Meddlesome naysayers and bandage quips
overachieving in laws and unattainable standards
whose standards?
Mediocre marriage between mediocre bedsheets
sagging now unrecognizable milk producing nurturer

spread open wide, dear submissive
open to act and do and be and act until quality feeling fills the sheets
Fills the void
the lie of the better
the lie of the soapbox

irrelevant naysayer held reverently above impractical practicality
now gray
now white
now gray
now white

boxed in
in boxed house
manufactured to house life and smiles and cooking and eating and love making

seclusion breeds opportunity

opportunity to question
opportunity to run
run far
run far
to the backwards had been
revolting not now been
dear submissive tempted now to run
run from the faith
run from the gray now white now gray now white

now disqualified with quips of knowing better than thou
better than the brokenness
better than the now
why ask how
dear submissive
dear seclusive
elusive reclusive diabolical questioner of the faith
questioner of the emphatic

realistically seeing the reality of the being in the madness never seeing

but the brow and the beating
and the meeting of the quipping and whipping mental furor into mad fury
fury at self
fury at self
at elusive submissive
elusive submissive at high cost of life

snatched away laughter
hope of respectability
hope of in-loving kindness
in love-ability
ability
utility

utilitarian though you seem to not be the backhanded equalizer suppressing madness temper

Tempted to cope
tempted to flee backwards to inexplicable ridiculous radical

hold me down longer
loving sad view
hold me down harder

run from the now white now gray
make fun with the freedom of the boxed in box maker
laughter taker
for small money maker

eunuch drone worker
enabling free for frees sake
for sayings sake
for others knowing sake

high calling to poverty ignoring true need unfulfilling unequally maker
marriage breaker
oneness breaker
promise breaker
fail
fail
fail