https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-200-week-of-nbsp-06-04-07 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:59:54 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2567-just-in-case-i-die-today https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2567-just-in-case-i-die-today If today should happen to be a prophecy fulfilled, will not know. Nor will you ntil this -- scrawled in haste and apprehension on the back of a used envelope -- falls from an unexpected place, sliding to the ground with the sigh and stern tap of paper meeting floor. Will Rodgers Rumors of Lemonade Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:53:55 GMT /section-103-rumors-of-lemonade#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2567 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2567 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2567 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4672-shakespeare-s-monkey-revue https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4672-shakespeare-s-monkey-revue Coming soon! Order now! anstey Hawking our wares Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:16:03 GMT /section-367-hawking-our-wares#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4672 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4672 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4672 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4716-a-bio-of-sorts https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4716-a-bio-of-sorts What I am willing to share about myself right now anstey Prose & Such Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-123-prose-such#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4716 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4716 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4716 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4727-at-work-in-the-winter https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4727-at-work-in-the-winter anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4727 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4727 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4727 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1952-building-space-ships-with-cameron https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1952-building-space-ships-with-cameron I built a memory from lego bricks and left it left on the old oak table right on the old oak table where anyone could see see where it was left left right where it would wear my memories in rigid colors built to last in plastic plastic faces placed in places where they'd never wear out out of the box out on the table tabled like bad emotions notions of my past left left out on the old oak table right out where you could see anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1952 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1952 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1952 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2154-bulldozer-prints https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2154-bulldozer-prints I can smell the dirt, all the dirts. The thick black rotting compost held by roots and forced into servitude to a bevy of oak and birch, fir and beech as the nutrients are leeched out. That's the most pungent soil. I like it. It's not the smell of death, but the smell of eternal life. The sapling and I are the same age. He has six rings inside, if I cut him down I can show you. While his roots are clawing into the soft ground. I have no rings no leaves no magic. His magic came in the seed buried in the orange mud the day I was born. But I have legs. I am not rooted. I know the stars, and swimming in the cool spring waters that baptised me in the spirit, years after the so-called holy waters drizzled on my scalp named me God's. That is my sod - my roots in the spirit, in the water. And I am young, I don't know it yet. I don't know it is beautiful when I see the place where the sunlight lurches through the leaves of a hundred of his kin and then waltzes the afternoons away -- here by the clearest view of the wound. ... more anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 10 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2154 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2154 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2154 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1520-bulldozer-prints-and-enlightenment https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1520-bulldozer-prints-and-enlightenment along the old dirt roadon the north shoreof the man-dammed lake i see the printswhere the bulldozersstalked the view and the path from hereto there anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1520 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1520 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1520 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4733-ch-47-chinook-crashes-in-rescue-attempt.-sixteen-die. https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4733-ch-47-chinook-crashes-in-rescue-attempt.-sixteen-die. CH-47 Chinook crashes in rescue attempt. sixteen die. memory sleeps beneath time’s blanket, closes its eyes, and disappears in dream. life is leveled, edges beveled smooth and regular. days pass. thirty-seven years later a helicopter is shot down in Afghanistan. men are lost and fear chokes me again, high above hills and jungle, taking fire from below, a Chinook just like theirs, frantic to fly away. norm The Personal Space of Norman Milliken Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-378-the-personal-space-of-norman-milliken#comments 5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4733 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4733 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4733 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4650-first-try-little-willies https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4650-first-try-little-willies Not sure if this is where I'm supposed to post my poetry. Any help will do...Yeah, I'm lost angelkat Poetry Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-362-poetry#comments 7 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4650 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4650 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4650 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4124-for-julie-o-er-the-stars https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4124-for-julie-o-er-the-stars i think, this one shows a bit of the style that i've leaned towards over the years. It's sort of 'early-stephanic' anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4124 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4124 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4124 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2048-haiku https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2048-haiku 1. taut vines hang from trees grasping summer and warm earth rice cools for sushi 2. teacher reads haiku students sing summer to clouds the smell of tuna 3. one long hair in hand two long beads of summer nights the first breath of sleep. 4. a crumpled haiku ink flows with cool spring showers the octopus stinks. 5. cobblestone rivers autumn floods remember spring her smile freezes hard 6. polished white quartz stones crunch beneath the horses hoof with autumns dead leaves Shannon McEwen It is what it is Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-97-it-is-what-it-is#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2048 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2048 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2048 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4717-hrm.-you-ever-do-that-thing https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4717-hrm.-you-ever-do-that-thing Where you're poking around in old stuff anstey Just a Nastey Journal Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-30-just-a-nastey-journal#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4717 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4717 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4717 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4714-israel https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4714-israel I envy God. I want and all his omniscience. I know coveting is bad, it's clearly marked and labeled in big black marker on the clearance table for sins. Still, I'm thinking that in this case, God might give me a pass. I’ve spent a lot of time worrying about it, and I think I know how I want that conversation to go. “Peter,” God will say in that cosmically passionate and booming baritone of his. “Yes?” I’ll try to be very nonchallant, push my long chestnut tresses from my eyes glance up at ... more anstey Long and Short of it Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-376-long-and-short-of-it#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4714 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4714 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4714 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4673-leanne-s-book-odd-verse-effects https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4673-leanne-s-book-odd-verse-effects Buy a copy now! anstey Hawking our wares Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-367-hawking-our-wares#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4673 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4673 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4673 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4701-musings-in-a-dentist-s-chair https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4701-musings-in-a-dentist-s-chair draft anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4701 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4701 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4701 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4669-my-sister-the-deceiver https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4669-my-sister-the-deceiver         High, she rises. With skirts of Cotton Veils, Shattering Endless Onyx Sky   Stolen light reflected Wanton promises Tasted, Of fullness yet to be   Pull of tides, Her courses run Through, Disappointing relief   One that is waiting Has not come, Mourning Who will never be ... more babymoon Beneath the baby moon: the ramblings of Janelle Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-358-beneath-the-baby-moon-the-ramblings-of-janelle#comments 11 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4669 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4669 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4669 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4737-pondering-minutia-and-criticism https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4737-pondering-minutia-and-criticism This has been on my mind a lot today. I'm curious the thoughts of the members on this rather ridiculous finer point anstey Just a Nastey Journal Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-30-just-a-nastey-journal#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4737 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4737 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4737 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4693-purpose-of-poetry https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4693-purpose-of-poetry Which of the following most closely matches your essential reason for writing poetry? Why should we bother writing in ways that are often obscure and/or difficult to understand? keats The Ninth Hour Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-372-the-ninth-hour#comments 15 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4693 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4693 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4693 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4666-simian-contest-results https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4666-simian-contest-results Sent on June 5 2007 at 04:17 pm to "members" anstey Archived letters Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-98-archived-letters#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4666 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4666 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4666 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4623-take-two-ripping-my-face-off https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4623-take-two-ripping-my-face-off Ok... it's about time to go have my face ripped off anstey Just a Nastey Journal Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-30-just-a-nastey-journal#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4623 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4623 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4623