We monkeys
Learned to clean our teeth
To use a tool
Pick bugs from feet
In time, sold lattes
For exorbitant loot
Built corporate entities
Leeched common good
Smashed their unions
And tip jars to boot
Over oil to ship our delicate scones
Went to war with sticks and stones
Bombs and drones to shield our wealth
Destroyed each other, then ourselves
Empty handed
Empty souled
Thought we’d won
Then kingdom come
Refused us in
Voted us out
On butt cans kicked
Us bloody louts
So we monkeys conceded to share
We monkeys learned to open hand
And not demand
To give of heart
Be just one part
Of synergistic, mystic whole
That fills the well
From empty bowl
For them and thee
Instead of me
Come full circle
Monkeys we
