Living with the Monkey Mind: Poems and Other Shiny Objects

By Rob Roy O'Keefe

Living with the Monkey Mind is an attempt to craft a concise collection of poems that varies in topic, tone, and construct, creating a free-range landscape that shifts from the everyday to the abstract, the light to the dark, the personal to the universal, drawing on a variety of forms that include sestina and experimental verse. There is a conscious attempt to avoid linear or even logarithmic arrangements and embrace the disruption of the shiny object – all while trying hard not to sound like a pretentious jackass, which, after reviewing this description was not a particularly success effort. Please try to enjoy the work anyway.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rob Roy O'Keefe
• Release date: Jun 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311093509

Rob Roy O'Keefe

Rob Roy O’Keefe was raised in the Antarctic by a colony of emperor penguins, which explains both his love of fish and his intense anxiety when in the company of sea lions. At the age of 12 he left to go on walkabout, but upon learning that Australia was over 3,000 miles away, he took the more expedient route from Cape Melville, Antarctica to South America’s Cape Horn.He wandered north through the Andes, accumulated an abundance of practical knowledge, such as how to convince a hungry condor that you are not carrion. He eventually stumbled upon the hut of an Incan shaman who took him on as an apprentice. After a decade of immersion into the mysteries of the unseen world, Rob departed, fully prepared for his eventual success in the fields of pizza delivery, local politics, and brand consulting.Today, Rob resides in New England’s Merrimack Valley, where he lives in a tree house made of Good Humor popsicle sticks held together by the discarded dreams of retired sailors.

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Living with the Monkey Mind:

Poems and Other Shiny Objects

by

Rob Roy O'Keefe

Copyright 2015 Rob Roy O'Keefe

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If I knew originally appeared in Penny Ante Feud - Dying Words, Volume 17,

May, 2015.

Ode to rye toast is scheduled to appear in the October 2015 edition of Parody.

Poetry collections available by this author:

Return of the Monkey Mind: More Poems and Wandering Thoughts

Last Gasp of the Monkey Mind: Poems and Other Shiny Objects

All the Things I Don’t Understand: A Collection of Sorts

Fiction

Small Stories: A Perfectly Absurd Novel

For Dianne

INTRODUCTION

The idea behind this first iteration of the Monkey Mind poetry series is fairly simple –pursue whatever holds