Monkey's Greed Poem by Randy McClave

If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat
If the monkey hoarded only for itself that tasty treat,
While the other monkeys around him would starve then die
Scientists around the world would then try to figure out why.
They would study that one monkey from day unto day
Trying to figure out what made that monkey that very selfish way,
Why was that monkey that way and ever so greedy
Why didn't it share with the other monkeys that were needy.
Of course that story would be read in every scientific publication
Also in Psychology and ASPCA journals and pamphlets read in every nation,
That story of course would take the world by storm
About a greedy, uncaring selfish animal is not ever the norm.
That monkey would be branded as evil and greedy and uncaring
Because it believed in hoarding and not loving or sharing,
But, when those very same traits in a human being are seen
They put those culprit pictures on the cover of Forbes magazine.

Randy L. McClave