One of the Monkeys
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 inviting 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, morbid, ranting play, a stew full of murder, love, but with a noble feel. Shocked, I see hack 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 |