Monday 22 May 2023

Flunkey Monkey

Flunkey Monkey (2023)

Poems that monkey around. Poems that would swing from trees and eat bananas if they had limbs and mouths. Poems that are cheeky and a little mischievous. Poems that are rather hairy. Poems that see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, but see, hear and speak lots of absurdity. Poems that use simian similes and monkey metaphors. Monkey-poems.

I crushed grapes with my mighty fists
like an angry ape
and waited for the juice to ferment.
Samson sent
his girlfriend to instruct me to do that
and it’s a mystery
still to me. Wine, wine, wine, Delilah?