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The Monkey Chronicles

By on Sep 24, 2010 in Poetry | Comments Off

We took a stroll by the water, and Mabel was clinging to my arm.  I was younger then.  I was living in an elevator on Tomilson Street in the Bay District.  All day, when I wasn’t sightseeing with Mabel, I went up and down that elevator… though never past the seventh floor.  It is possible I was waiting for the Muse, but it is also possible that the Muse had disguised itself once again as a monkey.  I didn’t care for monkeys then, or now, but at least there weren’t that many of them by the bay.  That was the year Mabel was practicing witchcraft on the...

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