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--- Hur Guler <hurg wrote:

> The fragile blue monkey on your head often runs

> away.

> No wonder the monkey goes mad and disappears for

> three days every

> month with the moon.

>

> For any blue monkey in love with That,

> it's always these invisible days.

>

> The monkey lost the thread of the story he was

> telling.

> now his pink elephant roams her dream of Hindustan

> again.

> Narrative, poetics, destroyed the blue monkey,

> a dissolving, a return.

>

> Friend, I've shrunk to a hair trying to say your

> story.

> Would you tell the story of that blue monkey?

> I've made up so many love stories

> Now I feel fictional.

>

> (adapted from a Rumi poem based on a Coleman Barks

> interpretation)

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