Chimp

So the chimp said, "We run and we never stop
until we're free, until we find the last space
and there, we rest." He said it to the crowd, but
you know how it is,
no-one was listening. The TV was on
and he was a chimp after all. Just some guy
with too much hair.
And an attitude that said,
"Don't mess with me. Don't mess."
And when the late-night movie's on Channel Five
who do you believe? The naked woman
or the hairy chimp?
We should have listened.
They came for us all. Hacking their way through
what was once jungle but is now people,
stuck fast to the pavement outside the bargain stores.
Their blades glinted in the sun, shining like poetry
against a morning sky that was neither blue nor grey.