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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
Written by Casted_Runes (Mr Karswell)
Published
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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