Whilst climbing trees

to feel closer to God

& perchance

clasp the beard

of the cheeky old sod

something simian stirred

from pre-human history

in its current Chinese year

- it's the monkey in me.





Yes, there's a monkey in me

there's a monkey

 in you

there's a monkey in the vicar

& your mother

obviously too

as evolution does its things

in regards to time & ape

but we're not that different really

'cause everyone's primate

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