Monkey And
Down in the hay Where and bear usually lay They from a stable-boy's cry
He said; come quick! The got loose, got grass-sick! They'll founder! Fain, die
is now known by the sorrel and the roan? By the chestnut, and the bay, and the gelding
It is: by the gate you are given And remain in your place, for season And had the overfed dead but To high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom...
Did you hear that, Said monkey We'll get out of here, and square They've left the open wide!
So My Here is my hand, where is paw? Try and understand my plan, My is a furnace Full of love just, and earnest Now; you know that we must this Allegiance to a life of And no longer to that heartless Hay-monger, nor be his (that charlatan, with hustling!) Ursala, we've got to eat something And our keep, while still within The borders of the land that man has (all and tight-fisted!) Until we reach the country A-steeped in milk and
Will you keep fancy clothes on, for me? Can you bear a little longer to wear that My love, I by the air I breathe: Sooner or later, bare your teeth
But for now, just dance, C'mon, will you dance, my Darling, there's a for us Can we go, before I turn to Oh my darling, there's a for us Oh C'mon will you dance, my Oh, the are groaning with excess Like a table being set Oh my darling, we get there yet
trooped past the guards, Past the coops, and the fields, and the All night, finally:
The they gained grew Much farther than the that bear threw To mark they'd stop for tea
But a little faster And don't backwards feast is to the East, which lies a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds hear tea whistling, rise and clap And applause caws the kettle black And we can't none of that!
Move along, Bear; there, that's that Though cast in Our heart beat faster Than ever will
But They got to pay the bills they? That is the monkey'd say
So, with the of a clown, or a cur Or a kite, tight at its tether In her gown of fur And her jerkin' of swansdown and
Bear sway on her hind legs; The organ would dregs of song, for the pleasure Of the children, who'd Throwing at her feet Then in terror
Sing, dance, C'mon, you dance, my darling? Oh darling, a place for us Can we go, I turn to dust? Oh my darling, a place for us
Oh C'mon, will you dance, my You your eyes fixed on the highest hill Where you'll eat your fill Oh my darling, dear, If you Dance, darling, and I love you
Deep in the Shone a and miserly light Where the monkey shouldered his
had told him The bear had wandering A fair piece away from where were camped
Someone had him The bear'd been sneaking To the seaside caverns, to
And the troubled the monkey For he was of spelunking down in those caves
Also afraid the village people would say If they saw the bear in state;
and splashing obscenely Well, it seemed irrational, really; washing that
that matted and flea-bit pelt In some sea-spit-shine, old dripping with brine
But monkey laughed, and he muttered; When she back, Ursala will be bursting with pride
I jump up! Saying: you've rolling in muck! Saying: you smell of and grime!
But far out Far out By now By now Far out, by now, Bear 'Cause she not drown:
the outside-legs of the bear Up and down, in the water, like knobby garters
the outside-arms of the bear Fell off, as as if sloughed from boiled tomatoes
in a genteel curtsy Bear shed the mantle of her diluvian
And, a sigh, She allowed the burden of belly to like an apron full of boulders
If you could up her threadbare Coat to the where it's worn translucent in places
You'd see where Almost every night of the year Bear had been mending suspending that
Now her coat drags through the Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, minnows;
In the magnetic Balletic and glacial of insatiable shadow;
there! there! When left Bear there! there! When Bear clear of Bear
or later you'll bury your teeth