Do Not Figure Out What I Mean Poem by RIC BASTASA

if monkeys
could only write
own a camera
and learn how to
shoot and
post their pictures

we humans
shall have no history
no albums of
our own

our language unspoken
our tradition lost

and monkeys can have
more hope
to live in peace and
harmony
with the trees and vines

oh we have written
a lot
and made pictures and
movies
and books and
buildings

how we have monkeyed
history
our language our
very survival