I. \u00a0 \u00a0 CAGE ITEMS<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This box should be fairly heavy. The door
\nnever needs opened or undone. Bend the rim
\ninto a square. Little danger to your
\nself\u2014the room to be afforded him.<\/p>\n
A looking glass hung up by a small chain\u2014
\nyour pet\u2019s vanity exceeds belief. A
\nflimsily made affair is soon bitten
\nto pieces. Body of a cage. Many a
\ngood monkey is killed by swallowing
\nfragments of glass. Rub on a coat of
\nmaroon. A little ornamental topping.
\nOr Venetian Red, most suitable of
\ncolors for a cage. All that remains
\nis to procure your monkey and put him in.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
II. \u00a0 \u00a0 CLASSIFICATION<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
From the time my fingers were big enough
\nto manufacture fly-cages with hollowed
\ncork and pins\u2014all other lines of
\nfancy well threshed out\u2014Simians have held<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
great fascination. The schoolboy\u2019s definition <\/p>\n have labored to show a relationship. <\/p>\n What might have been. A fertile source of <\/p>\n III. \u00a0 \u00a0 AILMENTS<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Disease\u2014Symptoms of Indisposition<\/em>\u2014<\/p>\n Quinsy\u2014Good Riddance<\/em>\u2014a small apple<\/p>\n hollowed out\u2014Toothache\u2014Headache<\/em>\u2014treat him<\/p>\n as you would\u00a0a child\u2014Useful Article\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n as you would\u2014Broken Limbs<\/em>\u2014a human Being Bitten<\/em>\u2014first he should be en- <\/p>\n ness<\/em>\u2014Biliousness\u2014Monkeys Eating Their<\/em> <\/p>\n being\u2014Simple Remedies<\/em>\u2014a small apple hollowed<\/p>\n out and plugged again is greedily devoured<\/p>\n <\/p>\n IV. \u00a0 \u00a0 CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Savagely grabbed, the hand that has fed and <\/p>\n Bazaar. I haven\u2019t always had the heart. has a vacant cage. With an iron bar <\/p>\n human-like affair. As if we all of us <\/p>\n of dried moss, artificial leaf you might <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The source material for these pieces is <\/em>Notes on Pet Monkeys and How to Manage Them, Arthur Patterson\u2019s 1888 handbook, which was published in response to the colonialist British fashion of adopting exotic animals without any idea of how to properly provide care for them. These poems erase and rearrange the text into sonnet form. The poems were originally published in <\/em>The Florida Review (43.2, Fall 2019) and were the winner of the Humboldt Poetry Prize.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Savagely grabbed, the hand that has fed and \/ petted him all along…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5736,"template":"","categories":[9,49,119],"tags":[889,1683,1685],"class_list":["post-5732","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquifer","category-literary-features","category-poetry","tag-aquifer","tag-environmental-poetry","tag-notes-on-a-pet-monkey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nis \u201cthe plural of monk<\/em>.\u201d Or humonculous<\/em>.
\nMuch is lacking in what might have been
\ntold. I cannot pin. Great naturalists<\/p>\n
\nI cannot pin my credibility.
\nBelow the average human idiot\u2019s,
\nthe head of a chimpanzee. I am drifting.<\/p>\n
\ndrollery. My fingers were big enough.<\/p>\n
\nbeing\u2014Rheumatism\u2014Rupture<\/em>\u2014Risk of<\/em><\/p>\n
\nveloped\u2014Treatment<\/em>\u2014in a bag\u2014Costive-<\/em><\/p>\n
\nOwn Tails<\/em>\u2014a ready sale is better than
\nthe nuisance\u2014Excrement\u2014the \u201cKill or Cure\u201d<\/em>
\nTreatment<\/em>\u2014treat him as you would a human<\/p>\n
\npetted him all along. The very moment
\nnovelty is lost, sit and write off an
\nadvertisement to Exchange and Mart,<\/p>\n
\nA passing menagerie generally<\/p>\n
\na sharp and heavy blow. An exceedingly<\/p>\n
\ncome at last to this. In skinning him
\nyourself you\u2019ll find his hide fairly tough.
\nPut him in a natural posture. A bit<\/p>\n
\npurchase at the milliners. Keep him in full light.<\/p>\n