El MONO...

One day I gave an orange to a monkey and what did he do with it? He ate it. I was surprised. I expected him to play with it, smell or squeeze it, thank me for it…I don’t know. Somehow, I was disappointed. I realized that we, humans, are trained like singing dogs, tamed like dying lions, programmed to think and hesitate. My monkey took the orange and, in a moment of perfect intelligence, he ate it.

From the short list of Poem " Further on..." -

ETEL ADNAN ( fabulous lebanon poet and artist)