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Chimpanzees<\/strong><\/p>\n We are chimpanzees. Wellsuited, We know not what goes on in We are not bonobos. Lazily naked, We are bigboned, tinybrained; One small spark <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Harry Gallagher<\/strong>‘s last collection Northern Light<\/em>s (Stairwell Books 2017) will be followed soon by Running Parallel<\/em> (Black Light Engine Room Press), co-authored with BLER editor p.a.morbid. Harry runs the north east stanza of the Poetry Society. www.harrygallagherpoet. Chimpanzees We are chimpanzees. Wellsuited, we hoot, hunt down weaklings; shrieking, beating our chests at the tearing off of flesh. We know not what goes on in the farside of the wood. Nevertheless, we bless our alpha male for each death thud and the blood in our nostrils. We are not bonobos. Lazily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18208,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions\/18208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwe hoot, hunt down weaklings;
\nshrieking, beating our chests
\nat the tearing off of flesh.<\/p>\n
\nthe farside of the wood.
\nNevertheless, we bless our
\nalpha male for each death thud
\nand the blood in our nostrils.<\/p>\n
\nthey flakeout in embrace, while
\nwe chimps race eachother, elbows
\nand snarls pursuing first place.<\/p>\n
\ninflamed in a second, we are
\nwrecking the trees
\nand everything in them.<\/p>\n
\nis all we require,
\nas we sit in the scrub,
\nplaying with fire.<\/p>\n