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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Shakespeare's monkey (31-HP Day 9)


One of the many monkeys that I have drawn over the last couple of years.

A long time
Years, decades, centuries
Millenniums, eons, universes,
A really long time.
Randomly pecking at keys
Click, chunk, jam, curse
A roomful of monkeys
No computers for angels.
Give us long enough
And we will give you
Milton, Shakespeare
And the entire Old Testament.
It is probability,
It is randomness,
It is blind chance,
Order arising from chaos.
From random acts
Came fire and the wheel,
Towers and rockets,
The entirety of civilization.
Life itself is random,
Chance made our DNA,
The monkey and Shakespeare,
You and me.
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7 comments:

  1. Katherine BartlettOctober 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM

    My husband used to write things like this when we first met.

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  2. Tracy TennantOctober 8, 2013 at 10:40 PM

    Very creative poem. I liked your drawing of the monkey. I can only draw stick figures.

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  3. Joanne KaminskiOctober 8, 2013 at 11:24 PM

    I love it. This is how I feel everyday. I love to write, but sometimes it is just clunk, clunk, clunk.

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  4. DinoMamaOctober 8, 2013 at 11:56 PM

    Can I hire your monkey to help me write a blog post when I've no time to sit in front of my laptop to do so?

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  5. UnknownOctober 9, 2013 at 9:07 AM

    You had me at Shakespeare!

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  6. UnknownOctober 9, 2013 at 9:19 AM

    LOL!
    I am wondering who influenced your poetry?

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  7. CindyOctober 11, 2013 at 8:06 PM

    Love the monkey drawing!

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