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Really like "in concert with the clothes dryer" -- everyone knows that frustration!  I wonder why you have "whoever they is" though, the inconsistency of grammar doesn't really show up anywhere else.  Do you want this to be in prose form, or is it intended to be broken into poem lines?  If you go poem, line breaks are really going to make this quite powerful if you put them in the right places -- and I wouldn't necessarily break it into regulation stanzas either.  You have a good refrain but there's no reason not to play with its use a bit.  Just beware of the overuse of similes -- while yours are fairly unique and interesting, too many "likes" can in fact weaken a poem and it might be best to turn a few into outright metaphors.  I'd be happy to run over it again with you when I know what direction you want to take it in. 

PS. These are showing up as "unpublished", do you want us to have at them right now?  If you do, there should be a "publish" option on them -- I can only see them because I'm one of those sneaky administrators who gets to spy on everything.  Well, almost everything.  I can't see your underwear.  Maybe when the site is updated. 

Just yell at us if you want a hand.

by Leanne Hanson on Nov. 8 2009