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The Orange Monkey

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Release
2016
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  1. The Orange Monkey
    The Orange Monkey

    A restlessness took hold my brain,
    and questions I could not hold back.
    An orange monkey on a chain
    on a bleak uneven track

    told me that to understand
    you must travel back in time.
    I took a plane to a foreign land
    and said, I’ll write down what I find.

    Beneath a mountain’s jagged shelves
    cloaked with snow and shadows sheer
    plates tipped up upon themselves
    the pain of 50 million years

    and mules and goats were running wild.
    A happy chaos carried on
    and old men and young boys smiled,
    and worked until the day was gone.

    Packs of sandy-coloured dogs
    walked streets that looked like building sites,
    but piles of rocks and dust and smog
    could not block out a different light.

    When I returned I ran to meet
    the monkey, but his face had changed.
    He stood before me on two feet.
    The track was now a motorway.