72. Publishers and monkeys

James 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??