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innocence
what is innocence except
a monkey on a rack
or in a hole
observed by scientific eyes
bespectacled and sheer
and hands above a golden watch
delineating notes
on how the monkey’s eyes reflect
a dimming of the light
as if its love’s capacity
is withering like plants
in an abandoned house
a monkey on a rack
or in a hole
observed by scientific eyes
bespectacled and sheer
and hands above a golden watch
delineating notes
on how the monkey’s eyes reflect
a dimming of the light
as if its love’s capacity
is withering like plants
in an abandoned house
Published 24th Feb 2023
Author's Note
Perhaps ironically, I wrote and am writing this post in a KFC. When I was in my early twenties I read a book about an American scientist of the 1950s who performed experiments on monkeys to help determine the importance of love and bonding to human development. I’ve LONG since lost that poem, it went down with the ship of another website that I posted on back then. But this distilled version is basically it, and hopefully less embarrassing.
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24th Feb 2023 11:48pm
Anonymous
25th Feb 2023 12:23pm
KFC? What you doing in the devil's kitchen? Much food for thought. Read a beautiful poem about Laika many moons ago, but sadly, memory has erased the author. Rob
