Monkey And
in the green hay Where monkey and bear 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: stay by the you are given And remain in your place, for season And had the dead but listened To high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom...
Did you hear that, Said monkey get out of here, fair and square They've left the open wide!
So My Here is my hand, where is your Try and my plan, Ursala My is a furnace Full of that's just, and earnest Now; you know that we must this Allegiance to a of service And no longer answer to that Hay-monger, nor be his (that charlatan, artless hustling!) But; Ursala, we've got to eat And our keep, while still within The borders of the land that man has (all and tight-fisted!) Until we reach the open A-steeped in and honey
Will you your fancy clothes on, for me? Can you bear a little longer to wear leash? My love, I by the air I breathe: Sooner or later, you'll bare your
But for now, just dance, C'mon, you dance, my darling? Darling, there's a for us Can we go, before I turn to Oh my darling, there's a for us Oh C'mon you dance, my darling? Oh, the hills are groaning with Like a table ceaselessly set Oh my darling, we get there yet
They trooped the guards, the coops, and the fields, and the farmyards All night, finally:
The space they grew Much farther the stone that bear threw To mark where stop for tea
But walk a little And don't look feast is to the East, which lies a little past the pasture
When the hear tea whistling, they rise and clap And applause caws the kettle black And we can't have of that!
Move along, there, there; that's that cast in plaster Our Ursala's heart faster Than monkey's ever
But have got to pay the bills Hadn't is what the monkey'd say
So, the courage of a clown, or a cur Or a kite, jerking tight at its In her gown of fur And her jerkin' of and leather
Bear would sway on her hind The organ grind dregs of song, for the pleasure Of the children, who'd Throwing coins at her Then in terror
Sing, dance, C'mon, will you dance, my 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 keep your fixed on the highest hill Where you'll ever-after eat fill Oh my darling, dear, If you Dance, darling, and I you still
Deep in the Shone a weak and miserly Where the shouldered his lamp
Someone had him The bear had wandering A piece away from where they were camped
Someone had him The bear'd sneaking away To the seaside caverns, to
And the troubled the monkey For he was afraid of spelunking down in caves
Also what the village people would say If saw the bear in that state;
Lolling and obscenely Well, it seemed irrational, washing that face
Washing that matted and pelt In sea-spit-shine, old kelp dripping with brine
But just laughed, and he muttered; When she back, Ursala will be bursting with pride
Till I up! Saying: you've been in muck! Saying: you smell of and grime!
But far out Far out By now By now Far out, by now, Bear she would not drown:
First the of the bear Up and fell down, in the water, like garters
Then the of the bear Fell off, as as if sloughed from boiled tomatoes
in a genteel curtsy Bear shed the of her diluvian shoulders;
And, a sigh, She allowed the burden of to drop like an apron full of boulders
If you hold up her threadbare Coat to the light where worn translucent in places
You'd see where every night of the year Bear had been mending suspending that baseness
Now her coat drags the water Bagging, a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnows;
In the embrace Balletic and glacial of insatiable shadow;
there! there! When Bear Bear there! there! When Bear stepped of Bear
or later you'll bury your teeth