Am I a Monkey’s Uncle?

Not so long ago a group of clever men entered into our common domain under the sun. Their singular and somber step in great contrast to the richness of freedom we enjoyed then.

When the black hats came into our rich forest we watched them from a safe distance above high as they planted their iron cage in the center of a large clearing in our forest. And then as mysterious as they came they left us to our own devices.

As the clever men knew we would, we descended from the trees and approached the cage at first with great supicion and caution. But when we realized inside the cage were all the coconuts we would ever want in plain sight for the taking, we slipped our arms in under the bar to take benefit of what was freely there.

But when we tried to draw the coconuts out, we could not. Since the black bars would not permit us. It wasn’t long after that the clever men returned and we not willing to let go of what we surely grasped, we lost our freedom not so long ago.

les raketti
November 30 2007