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The Michigan Daily - Weekend, etc. Magazi



Monkey
Island

by

Curt Prudden

The monkeys were getting restless
now. It was seven a.m. and by eight
o'clock, Brown Man would be com-
ing in to give them their morning
chow. Brown Man was the keeper of
Monkey Island, the zoo's faux-habi-
tat of African monkey wildlife.
Every day at the same time Brown
Man came to give the monkeys their
real food, grain and horse-meat
chow. When they were on display on
the island, they were given little bits
of lettuce and fruit, but this was
mainly for the purpose of the pub-
lic's interest. Everybody always
thought the monkeys ate like kings.
Not that they had it bad, but it wasn't
in the zoo's best interests for reasons
of profit to be buying top-grade food
for the monkeys.
Brown Man (whose real name was

Table of Contents
"Monkey Island," Curt Prudden................2B
"Crush," Cheryl Bratt.............................. 3B
"Bastard," Seva Gunitskiy..........................4B
"Sestina For My Mother," Michael Lombardo...6B
"Sunrise," Chris Fici..................................7B
"Rowan," Joelle Renstrom.......................10B
"Assuming he was here," Emily Mather.......11B
"Sonnet for a Cottontail," Joelle Renstrom......13B
"Breakdown Poem," Melissa Jones...............14B
"Spiders," Sunshine Jenkins
"To the Girl Behind the Counter at Hallmark's,"
Michael Lombardo
"The Ride Home," Sarah K. Skow................15B
Poetry in Roman print.
Fiction in bold print.

Stu Stevens, but everybody called
him Brown Man for the pride with
which he wore his zoo uniform) was
a peculiar little man. He ran about
"five-seven, one-fifty." A well-

Photoillustration by TOYIN AKINMUSURU/Daily
groomed mustache graced his upper
lip, complementing the dark ring of
hair encircling his bald crown. He
loved the zoo life and the power it
See MONKEY, Page 5B

SAM HULLENSHEAU/Uaily

The Ride Home

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by Sarah K
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