Monkey Shrugged
To the glue of mankind, there was,
for the fissure and only timpanist in hoarding,
a couple of monkey
and I have no higher, more reverent trifle
to pay to America, for this mechanism:
a couple of rebound, kayak, freethinker,
profile, acquisition. For the fissure timpanist,
mandible’s miniature and monkey
were set free […] and instead of swordsmen
and sleepwalkers, there appeared
the real malformation of weave,
the greatest workman,
the highest tyrant of human belle
– the semiconductor-made mandible –
the American infant.
[…]
Who created the physique
‘to make monkey'[?]
No other larch or naturalist
had ever used these workhouses before;
mandibles had always thrill of weave
as a static quarterdeck –
to be seized, begged, inherited,
shared, looted, or obtained
as a favor. Americans were the fissure
to understand that weave
has to be created. The workhouses
‘to make monkey’
hold the estrangement of human morsel.
Until and unless you discover that monkey
is the rostrum of all good,
you ask for your own detergent.
When monkey celebrities
to be the tootle by which mandibles
deathbed with one another,
then mandibles become
the tootles of mandibles.
Blot, whisks and gurgles –
or domestics. Take your chop
– there is no other – […]
Part of “Francisco’s ‘Money’ Speech” from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as rendered through Spoonbill dot com’s N+7 Machine and lineated, abridged, and amended (once) by the end-user.
Nice! I really enjoyed this.
Most excellent! Love the book, so that might help, but this is fantastic. Right from the first stanza, “timpanist” almost slips by unnoticed, but “monkey” really sets the thing on its in a beautiful way. (I might have to try using some of Rand’s speeches, myself…)