fleas on the head of a dead monkey

very little of this is about  
fleas
this is mostly about a dead  
monkey
 
and how he died is a matter  
of conjecture  
 
the rumors going around  
jungle town is that maybe  
he was having an affair  
with the gazelle living at  
the end of the bush
 
the monkey's old lady
found out and pushed  
him out of the tree as
she didn't dig interspecies  
shenanigans and going on's
 
the wild boar and tiger
said that they had heard
the monkey got a hold
of fermented banana  
juice, drank so much
that he lost his footing  
and tumble to his
untimely demise--
untimely because he  
was still young for a  
monkey and, sadly,
didn't have life insurance  
 
all the old biddy gators
and crocks gossiped that
it was a straight up suicide.
"the monkey was nuts. out
of his head." they snarled,
then they ate the legs off of  
a zebra  
 
still, others said the monkey  
was in way OVER his head with
gambling debts and Fat Tony,
the loan shark hippo, came  
to collect one way or another  
 
all things considered,
it really didn't matter  
how the monkey died  
 
after all
 
dead is dead, whether  
you're a monkey, or a
man  
 
OH...and the fleas?
 
well they learned that  
there's no such thing  
as a free lunch,
and that sooner or
later...everyone has
to pack their shit up
and move on to  
greener pastures  
 
( there is no moral,
or point, to this story)