72. Publishers and monkeys
Save This Post as PDFJames Kotsybar was kind enough to send me another poem of his, which, I think, will be fun to reproduce here… All I can conclude from it is that nowadays it is much harder to get published for a poet that for a physicist 
MONKEYS SHINED
– James Ph.Kotsybar
The keyboard monkeys, ad infinitum,
may randomly type out a Shakespeare play,
but publishing monkeys may well spite ‘em,
printing only the pap that sells today.
The chance of brilliance, vanishingly small,
is filtered through some monkey business sense
and may never make the bookshelves at all -
some monkeys see only dollars and cents.
A universe of monkey time and space
might type a script, enduring and concise,
which only may reach its true, valued place
if editor apes judge it worth the price.
Eternity brings this to fruition:
?Thank you for sending us your submission??
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Nice. Except that the bookselves are actually full of these products. The monkeys have also laced two shoes with a rope, thinking that it is their contribution to string theory.