MONKEY OF EXPERIENCE

 

try to write

a poem

about the monkey

of experience

 

but ideas

get tripped up

in the passage 

from head

to page

 

so we lose

the opportunity

to create

a real work of art

 

one, that might,

just might,

stand up in

the annals—

future archives

 

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