Day 106

Today's words:

Bargain

Garden

Parade

Satan

Video

Monkey

At under half a mil, this place is a bargain.

Imagine, your own garden,

And a perfect perch from which to watch the parade

On Thanksgiving. I don't know who in the name of Satan

Shot that stupid video

With that monkey

Running around. But I'm not going to monkey

Around with such things. I've made a bargain 

With another video

Company to re-shoot the garden.

That'll put the fear of Satan

Into them. No-one's going to rain on my parade.

I saw a clown in the parade

Walking a monkey

On a leash. By Satan,

That's a better use for the animal. I'll make a bargain

With you: Keep it out of the garden

And I'll let you sit in on the video

Shoot. There'll be a scene in the video

Of the parade

Seen from the terrace garden.

It's lovely: Let's not monkey

Around, this place is a bargain,

For the love of Satan.

"Get thee behind me, Satan,"

My mother used to say when tempted. But when I saw that video

I knew I had to strike a bargain

To make a better one, with a shot of the parade,

And perhaps the monkey

Walking in it - just not in the garden.

It was in a garden

That Jesus was tempted by Satan

Who appeared in a form similar to a monkey.

Nowadays, without the video

We believe nothing, and the endless parade

Of life strikes us as driving a hard bargain.

Sitting in the garden and watching a video

I was reminded of Satan walking in a parade

With a monkey in order to fulfill a bargain.