Shakespeare’s Monkey
Terry Underwood, PhDRead the Monkey’s poems and such in the app for freshest drafts. They evolve. Listen to selected poems read or spoken in podcasts
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Rotting Fish
The plate sold the tale, the plastic cover
Stuck to the wall.
The hidden under-lament silicone layer,
Toasting like marshmallow.
Musical high wattages woofed, meter reader wheel spinning,
Pay no attention to rotting fish.
Male ja...
The Third Person
This is a work of political fiction inspired by a real dispute over documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice in late December 2025 related to the Epstein files. The setting, behaviors, and thoughts depicted here are imaginary an...
Trumpian Resolutions
Midnight.
The year cracks open
like an egg I’ll fry
and feed to the chickens.
They’re outside, cold and drunk,
the ones who count backward,
the ones who believe
in blastoffs.
three, two, one
and then what?
A kiss?
A fresh star...
A Clenched Fist for Christmas
Merry, merry, merry
quite a contrary piggy
my fist won’t open.
My fist is glued jiggy.
I gave you borders, sealed
tight as my jaw.
I gave you trillions.
I broke none of your laws.
Trillions.
Say it back to me.
Trillions!...
The Mirror’s Retort
Alone. A man before his reflection.
What names have I? What words weight down the tongue?
Piggy—those swine-sweet syllables that spring
unbidden when she squeals her questions, hung
on hooks of light, on Air Force One’s bright wi...
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