Meet me at the monkey cage at the zoo near where the orangutans mate almost constantly because I will kill myself otherwise the good news is when you arrive I will ask you to marry me if you will forgive me for telling you that I was married when I wasn’t and I know that it’s not the most romantic place in the world to ask you to share your life with me but when you think about it, it is because I always thought that’s what you like best about me, my lying, my unusual choices, the sound of the Neal Hefti Orchestra that follows my wherever we go when we are together and would certainly go away if we were to part not to mention my lust for ‘me being me’ as a bonus to everything else already detailed quite thoroughly above and performed in haste in the zany style of the day (1965) which is now très gone, dead, forgotten, not alive
Ricky Garni is a graphic designer living in North Carolina. His work can be found on the Web and in print, as well as 19 collections in print available through the auspices of lulu.com. Last year he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for a poem he wrote about Mighty Mouse.