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Shakespeare's Monkeys

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More in Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting

bad morning

a single shoe
waits in the open

her mate
hides beneath the couch

twenty minutes swearing
two dirty socks

no time for breakfast today.

hungry and frustrated
a single god damned

shoe. 

Norm - on Feb. 25 2008
This is a metaphor for more than a few lives. The terse economy of the poem makes it work so well. I love it.
Leanne - on Feb. 25 2008

The trick is not to use odour eaters, so that you can just follow the smell to the missing shoe -- problem solved.  Maybe my family is stinkier than yours though.

I agree wholeheartedly with Norm -- the simplicity of this, and the fact that the metaphor can be applied to bazillions of situations, makes it a universal winner. 


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