Monkey Knows All //Rik

[Rik]

*Monkey* *Knows* *All*

Somewhere light-less he shakes a page
from a periodical, licks the husks
of bookworms from penny-a-word ads.

Shelves squeak like storm-drain rats
as knowledge settles in un-indexed heaps:
he scavenges their racks for glue.

He posits an exit from the stacks -
he saw it, once, wood-framed with steps
when he was sniffing for fresh inks.

He is lost|found, scraping his beard
with knuckles, its snail-whorl strands
stitched in place by threads from spines.

(rev 2, Dec 07)

Rik, knee deep.

[Dennis M. Hammes]

Rik wrote:

"Somewhere dim..."
More. (One stanza? Before "He posits"? Hm. would a monkey
posit? "Dreams"? Enough ems, you can hear him "think"...)

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