Monkey And
Down in the hay Where monkey and bear lay woke from a stable-boy's cry
He someone come quick! The got loose, got grass-sick! founder! Fain, they'll die
What is now known by the and the roan? By the chestnut, and the bay, and the grey?
It is: stay by the you are given And in your place, for your season And had the overfed but listened To high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom...
Did you that, Bear? Said monkey We'll get out of here, and square They've the gate open wide!
So My Here is my hand, where is your Try and understand my plan, My is a furnace Full of love just, and earnest Now; you know we must unlearn this Allegiance to a life of And no longer answer to heartless Hay-monger, nor be his (that charlatan, with hustling!) Ursala, we've got to eat something And earn our keep, while within The of the land that man has girded (all and tight-fisted!) we reach the open country A-steeped in milk and
Will you your fancy clothes on, for me? Can you bear a little to wear that leash? My love, I by the air I breathe: Sooner or later, bare your teeth
But for now, just dance, C'mon, you dance, my darling? Darling, a place for us Can we go, I turn to dust? Oh my darling, a place for us Oh will you dance, my darling? Oh, the hills are groaning excess Like a table ceaselessly set Oh my darling, we get there yet
They trooped the guards, Past the coops, and the fields, and the All night, till
The space gained grew farther than the stone that bear threw To mark where they'd for tea
But walk a faster And look backwards Your feast is to the East, lies a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds hear tea whistling, rise and clap And their applause caws the black And we have none of that!
Move along, Bear; there, there; that's Though in plaster Our Ursala's heart beat Than ever will
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 of swansdown and leather
Bear sway on her hind legs; The organ would grind of song, for the pleasure Of the children, who'd Throwing at her feet recoiling in terror
Sing, dance, C'mon, will you dance, my Oh darling, there's a for us Can we go, before I to dust? Oh my darling, there's a 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 weak and light Where the shouldered his lamp
Someone had him The bear had been A fair piece away where they were camped
Someone had him The been sneaking away To the seaside caverns, to
And the thought the monkey For he was afraid of spelunking down in those
Also afraid the village people would say If they saw the in that state;
Lolling and obscenely Well, it seemed irrational, really; washing that
Washing that matted and pelt In some sea-spit-shine, old kelp with brine
But monkey just laughed, and he When she back, Ursala will be bursting with pride
I jump up! Saying: you've been in muck! Saying: you of garbage and grime!
But far out Far out By now By now Far out, by now, ploughed 'Cause she not drown:
First the outside-legs of the Up and fell down, in the water, like garters
Then the of the bear Fell off, as easy as if sloughed from tomatoes
Low'red in a curtsy shed the mantle of her diluvian shoulders;
And, a sigh, She the burden of belly to drop like an apron full of boulders
If you could up her threadbare Coat to the light where it's worn translucent in
see spots where Almost every night of the year Bear had been mending suspending baseness
Now her coat drags through the Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, minnows;
In the embrace Balletic and of Bear's insatiable shadow;
there! there! When left Bear there! there! When stepped clear of Bear
Sooner or later you'll bury teeth