The Monkey Chronicles

For hundreds of thousands of years,
we’ve been trying to figure out how to
articulate with our mouths, to build
unimaginable machines with our hands,
to try and fathom our own existence

and the best that we’ve been able to do
is scream and fight with each other, fear
what is beyond the horizon, and
fondle each other’s genitals because
we are bored out of our wits and have no idea
what to do next.

And when you look at us, and think that we
are laughing at you,

We are.”

 

About this poem

Written November 24, 2003, soon after watching the first few minutes of Last Call with Carson Daly. It took a couple minutes to write and isn’t much of a “poem”, but it was worth a good laugh.