My appeal
︎︎︎ Shae Sennett
︎ Oct 12, 2024
There was someone pushing buttons
of the monkeybrained operation
but I forgot where he went,
totally high tailed his butt out
and now he’s… like… what?
Mad at me for not reaching out?
I heard whispers about this,
I heard tell and no-telling
who she said he said
that’s what I’m saying!
It was a game of telephone
and it was cuckoo bananas. No, really
I think he’s using a banana as a telephone.
The call’s coming from inside the banana bro!
Bro was telling all types of tails to me
Spinning yarn banana into long banana
straw banana into gold banana
silver banana into grambanana
Ivory banana into Grand Piana
Sonatas in C like spell ICUP
Spell in-cup, actually, like sea monkey
like monkey see monkey do what i gotta do
Poke monkey with stick, monkey around a bit
throw shit at wall, see what sticks
go bananas, chimp out, fun word play around…
This is a fun word playground
and that was some monkey bars
And now im in banana jail
Please let me out.
Just kidding. There is no point in a peel (aha)
But here we are. Two naked guns
Hanging banana like we hang tomorra
Can you believe this was a love story all along?
I don’t get it, but I’m not saying bananas again.
That’d be the monkey chasing its tail for real
just in time for a tail image here. The end!
of the monkeybrained operation
but I forgot where he went,
totally high tailed his butt out
and now he’s… like… what?
Mad at me for not reaching out?
I heard whispers about this,
I heard tell and no-telling
who she said he said
that’s what I’m saying!
It was a game of telephone
and it was cuckoo bananas. No, really
I think he’s using a banana as a telephone.
The call’s coming from inside the banana bro!
Bro was telling all types of tails to me
Spinning yarn banana into long banana
straw banana into gold banana
silver banana into grambanana
Ivory banana into Grand Piana
Sonatas in C like spell ICUP
Spell in-cup, actually, like sea monkey
like monkey see monkey do what i gotta do
Poke monkey with stick, monkey around a bit
throw shit at wall, see what sticks
go bananas, chimp out, fun word play around…
This is a fun word playground
and that was some monkey bars
And now im in banana jail
Please let me out.
Just kidding. There is no point in a peel (aha)
But here we are. Two naked guns
Hanging banana like we hang tomorra
Can you believe this was a love story all along?
I don’t get it, but I’m not saying bananas again.
That’d be the monkey chasing its tail for real
just in time for a tail image here. The end!
Shae Sennett is a writer whose film journalism has appeared in Slash Film, Screen Slate, Mars Review, and other publications. Her poems have appeared in Ex Pat Lit Journal and her debut play Last Night Was a Play had two sold-out off-off Broadway runs last winter. Her first short film Times Square Love Story will be streaming on NoBudge in October.