Monkey Teaches Sunday School on Mondays
(With apologies to Pavlov and his dogs)
Younger monkeys e-mail elder monkey
and expect an answer within two minutes.
Elder monkey drools and writes right back.
He is turned on by the bells and
whistles of his computer.
“Woof! Woof!”
His handlers hand him a biscuit.
Elder monkey has grown to appreciate
tension and abuse:
the systematic beatings,
the shit and foul words hurled at his head.
The working conditions are overcrowded.
Elder monkey is overworked.
Yet he has managed to survive,
to stay alive and fight
what he once believed was the good fight.
Now he no longer knows:
nor does he drool anymore
when bells and whistles sound
and his handlers bait him with
an occasional, half-price biscuit.
rogermoorepoet 
This is uncomfortably close to the truth.
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Monkey makes a great many people feel uncomfortable. Me too, at times. He can be very outspoken.
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He is a monkey I suppose and his view is different
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My poor husband feels like elder monkey. He is so ready to quit his job and move to Costa Rica and fish. I am on board except for the risk of malaria, Dengue fever and Zika!
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A lot of people feel like that towards the end of their careers. And that can be anywhere from 50-55 onwards. The new corporate tactic of “mobbing” doesn’t help … a group of juniors who want you out and a group of senior administraitors [sic] who want to get rid of you too. When these groups conspire together and If this hits sickness or the “self-doubt ageing syndrome” then life can be hell.
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It’s been getting worse lately as a venture capital group bought his company a few years ago. Productivity is the word, and the employees are run ragged. He’s been ‘promoted’ into supervisory hell instead of being able to do the real work he enjoys. (He’s an electrical engineer.)
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Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, and sold it to Monkey on E-Bay. I’ll send you a copy of the original Monkey Temple when Clare comes back. I think your husband will love it. It’s all online with voice readings at moore.lib.unb.ca/poet
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Oh, fantastic! Thank you so much!
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Sounds like your average worker!
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Very average: we’ve all been there, Jane. But it gets worse as you age and lose your illusions. I think Monkey has lost all his.
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So much fun, Roger! I’m still not certain I’ll be able to sit through the circus tonight…Lol
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I’ll see how much I can take. Being on my own, it may be better than that lonely bed filled only with a Teddy Bear. A good one: an old friend and very nice. But still a Teddy!
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I got about halfway through and have opted to walk away…
I will vote for the lesser of the evils and wish for the best, because the greater is just so bad my brain can’t get around it…Lol
Have a great evening, Roger!
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In part it’s an American tragedy, but in the larger picture we are seeing the destruction of democracy as we know it. Emotion trumps fact: it’s the post-factual age … too many lies and a constant need for fact-checking. Horrible, really.
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Agreed…I’m posting HARD (2) tomorrow on the Dakota Pipeline again…All we can do is keep beating the drum and hope…
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“hpe with its gentle persuasion / whispers a comforting word …” I am not sure how much hope there is on the front lines though. More despair and quiet anger, I should think.
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Tonight should be interesting! All gloves off! We will se whether the Monkey or the Skunk steals the show!!
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I will be watching and so will many monkeys of all shapes and sizes. May the least bad monkey win!!!
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