Foolish Monkey

Foolish Monkey
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*************************** *************************** WARNING: what you read at noon is NEVER the same poem or post a few hours later. I can't help myself. I like to noodle. HELPFUL SUGGESTION: if you like what you've read (and even if you didn't), come back in a day or two. It'll be better. In fact, if you hated it, you must come back and read it again because it will definitely be better. *************************** "I find that I am so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain" -Red in The Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King ***************************

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010 10:06AM

who are me? a poem for now but then not because

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magritte-notrepro

 

I know who I am but the questions remain

or the question remains (i can’t say)

(i'm in another room) 

so ladeeda i’m walking along

as we are wont to do 

if that is in fact what we do when we do it

what we’re doing we don’t know

what we do do are doing could be

dreaming a dream or wifiling from a grand throne

of cold white or gold with encrusted jewells 

conjuring indentities whipped out of thin air 

a persona of a person of a friend of a poet

i feel as though i’ve been here forever 

before (where?) here (you know) (you know!)

a shadow string of a presence in the ethers

with~in a place, this arrangement our pact

code and energy and god knows

what it takes to get thishere this being thishere beingwhere where being who.as in who are you? 

now that's a thought 

as i walk or stroll

watch the spelling

you could be struslling and we don’t like the striller

strillers drag their heels making odd noises in their throats

stroglers are dragged down halls screaming in pain

carefully i stroll electronic corridors feeling 

mighty good feeling love surround even when

it is a grand love of my own making the place-me

love mine .friendship my promise o do i love you

do you love? love

do we know who we are

who i  r

you being u

please type carefully

are we here?

where is here

who are we

who am i?

who knows?

(not me*)

 

*I’m upstairs

 

magritte1
 
artwork by
Rene' Magritte:
upper image:  Not to Be Reproduced (La Reproduction Interdit), (1937) 
lower image:  Golconde, (1953)

 

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are you on the bus?

oh that was the other day....
maybe yesterday
beats me
please don't

bump

(carry on)
Watch the spelling, indeed! Nice scan. It seems that whatever you say, however you say it, your insouciant spirit comes thru with just as much clever, insightful and lovable spunk. So. Howdja do on the slots? (r)
thanks Clark,
Did superduper. played all day, found MY machine, kept waiting for the big jackpot, kept hitting little ones which kept me playing. eventually had to stop...gambling all day cost us nothing and we came back $30 buck ahead. which is good. and NO comping for my bday those cheap fux!
You're definitely upstairs on this one, monkey - I love it! I read it several times, and found myself both philosophically challenged and amused!
owl, it's nice to be upstairs. that's where the heat rises. and where the magic eludes. but now I have to go downstairs and out.

(gulp)

Thank you my friend!
Great choice in Magritte for this play on words and mind acorbatics. Fun!
Enjoyed strolling down your electronic corridor. It is a wonderful place. Looks like it might be Raining Men.
Anne, thanks. I love poetry. it pops out of me like little babies.
nonfeloneous C Brown,
your comment made me laugh. I was looking around for the title for the bottom image and I thought I'd just write that "it's raining men" but that woundn't have been respectful to the great Magritte. (However I think he might have enjoyed the laugh.) (or maybe not) (artists are a little quirky about their babies)
Yes, I can hear it now. "Oh brother, how plebian." I am sure he would not be impressed.

Oh well... out of the mouths of plebes.