What Gorillas 'Talk' About When Gorillas 'Talk' About Love
by Ray Nessly
Sign language wasn't tough to learn, 'says' Bobo. But typing? With these big ol' paws? Talk about a bear!
Grinning at his wordplay, he starts to pound on an old Smith-Corona.Eons later, Bobo evolves into Shakespeare. Bonus feature: wings.
Wings failing (!), he leaps from yon balcony. And I, Koko, 'say'Alas, poor William! I loved him as 'Bobo.'
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Published in Issue 7 of the Irish literary magazine, The Penny Dreadful, along with 'You Atop Franz Josef Glacier, Twelve Miles From the Tasman Sea'
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Alas! Really love that word.
Inventive! Good Gorilla!
And I 'says' many great touches here and so tiny. Love the wings and wings failing. Great.
Enough monkeys at enough typewriters. That notion comforted me for years, gave me hope.
Love Koko too. All of it.
HA!
cheecheecheechee...wha? Yo!
Jerry, thank you. (Alas, I had to work in a Shakespeare quote. I had no choice!)
Dianne, thanks so much for your kind comments! Took many--many-- edits before it occurred to me who the narrator might be. Koko was a real sweetheart, wasn't she?
Roz, thank you!
Mathew ...is that Chimpanese or Gorillaese? But cheecheecheecheechee right back at ya, soon as I figure out how to 'say' it in ASL. Thanks!
Clever.
"Eons later, Bobo evolves into Shakespeare. Bonus feature: wings.
Wings failing (!), he leaps from yon balcony."
Nice work, Ray!
*I love this.
Gary, Bill, Nonnie,
thank you!
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Love this, Ray!
Thanks very much, Sam & Kitty!