Renga number one

Lets just try to get a renga going - here's an old favourite 'ku by Basho. Simply respond by adding a haiku-like verse of your own that has a tentative link with the verse before.

The first cold shower;
even the monkey seems to want
a little straw coat

Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	on Feb. 7 2007 Small piles of monkey shit overpower sweet coconut milk um. yes. that.
Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	inspired from anstey on Feb. 7 2007 Dry grass and a rusty scythe lean against the barn door um. yes. that.
Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	inspired from anstey on Feb. 8 2007 A shallow puddle by the barn door -- wet hay smell um. yes. that.
Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	inspired from anstey on Feb. 8 2007 Two monkeys one lice picked from thick black hair. um. yes. that.
Testy Von Tester 40 posts	inspired from anstey on Feb. 9 2007 A straw hat blows across the dirt with today's newspaper
Rhiannon Jones 88 posts	on Feb. 12 2007 Today's newspaper Merits not the attention Of a dumb monkey
Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	inspired from Rhiannon Jones on Feb. 12 2007 Grandfather makes good rope from expensive soft white silk to tie monkey's fist stephan
Jones, Paganinifrom Hyde in Cheshire 385 posts	on Feb. 14 2007 nibbling a straw too lazy to go home but hungry again
Stephan Ansteyfrom Lowell, MA Associate, 6232 posts	inspired from Pags on Feb. 15 2007 A young roan horse chews pungent straw one hoof kicks up dust stephan