Final Declaration

I refuse,
to take

care
of

that

pet
monkey

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Ha! What the heck! I don't blame you at all Brett! And that's final! So cool!

[Brett Hernan]

Thank you Annette. I don't know if there's any literal interpretation of this piece which truly fits it other than to mention that in my opinion it may be about the natural world's autonomy, our ironic in general alienated separation from it as a race, and the flippancy with which en mass post industrially we disregard our callous detachment to the complete interconnectedness of these elements.
But that's obvious, isn't it?

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

I should have known! Thanks for the explanation and it makes total sense. Amazing!

[Brett Hernan]

I had no conscious explanation for it before the actual composition of my response to your comment, Annette.
I wrote this twenty seconds before stumbling to bed at 3.00 AM on a school night!
I only then had a vague intuition that it was more than another gag line for a free online poet.
Lucky guess!

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Ha! I often think we are the last to consciously know what our poems actually mean. Maybe that's the real beauty of it all...

[Brett Hernan]

Most certainly at 4.00 AM.