lavender silk monkeys

lavender silk monkeys

on a planet where everything was finally connected

by the Internet and the glorious promise of Commerce

it came as quite a shock when they were discovered

somewhere remote and wild: lavender silk monkeys

at first the story was a novelty until the children loved them

and someone realized you can monetize lavender silk monkeys

it began with stuffed animals and Saturday morning cartoons

and then cereal children’s clothing board games video games

lavender silk monkeys were everywhere now after eons hidden

but of course they weren’t called lavender silk monkeys at first

that came after someone who had missed the first profit wave

discovered the allure of lavender fur that came to be called “silk”

and reports that in that nearly ignored forest where they lived

the lavender creatures seemed to be damned near everywhere

there were always those adults who wanted exotic things made

from lavender silk monkeys now bred and slaughtered for hide

until the novelty wore off and the machine ground to a halt

and no one bothered to breed them anymore even for sport

you see new things can stay new only so long in the end

so they consumed the lavender silk monkeys every one

on a planet where everything was finally connected

by the Internet and the glorious promise of Commerce