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Shakespeare's Monkeys

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May 16, 2025  

More in Lost along the weigh

regarding the industrial revolution

a woman in a transparent sari
sits silent draped gracefully
in light cotton

as young men pass
considering what they can almost see

through the lingering orange remains
of man’s beautiful machinations
she whispers

to no one at all, “I am
beautiful – I am,”
as she starts to sob into her hands

Christy Wells - on Dec. 31 2011

Something about S1 distracts me from hearing the rest of the poem.  Her garment is introduced awkwardly, like a broken observation, is that intentional? 

I haven't yet connected the significance of title and body. 


Stephan Anstey - on Jan. 1 2012

The entire poem is sort of metaphor for how I see the relationship of man and the world through the industrial revolution. It's somewhat of a political piece. The cotton and the mechanations and the fabric and the bringing in of india as a touch of british colonialism all tie it together. I'm not sure it particularly works, but that's where I'm building towards.
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