The Man With No Career

A man was so taken with his eyebrows
―they were his most expressive feature.
All day long they would express...
well, you name and they would express it,
that he quite neglected his career.

This man was also very involved with his hands
and how they smelt up close.
all day long he’d be sniffing his fingers
or, to disguise it, stroking his nose.
And he quite neglected his career.

This same man had a pet monkey,
an adorable red and blue monkey,
who did cartwheels for peanuts
with whom he was so smitten
that as I have already written
he quite neglected his career.

At last, in his wretched deathbed,
parents grandparents all wailing
their blame and disappointment,
he implores, with a last long wheeze,
"With such eyebrows, such hands, and such a monkey,
who had time for a career?"