Dear Orangutan

Yelping Orangutans
how happy they perform
benevolent players
cavorting
romping in their cage
closest creature to man
closest being to man’s god
eyes hiding an enigmatic universe
chattering in a different order
screeching for attention
slamming against the iron bars
unaware they must die to save us
from our liver spots depression our fungus
and our need to care.

Gerald Zipper is the author of the play, "A Little Madness", produced at New York's Provincetown Playhouse. His other plays have appeared or are sceduled to appear in San Diego, Denver, etc. His poetry appears in over 250 literary and poetry magazines in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He served as Deputy Commissioner of a New York State agency, was hired as "Consultant on the Arts" to the New York State Senate, and manages a successful business enterprise. Several of the publications that have published Gerald Zipper's poetry over the 1997-01 period include: The Pegasus Review, VA; The Pointed Circle, Portland Community College, WA; The Poet's Pen, GA; Skylark, Purdue University; AURA, Univ. of Alabama; ICON, Kent State Univ., OH; The Amherst Review, Amherst College, MA; Piedmont Literary Review, VA; OYEZ REVIEW, Roosevelt Univ., Il; NEBO Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech University; Maryland Review, Univ. of Maryland E.S.; Bay Area Poet's Coalition, CA; Ellipsis, Westminster College; Sounds Of Poetry, MI; Parnassus Literary Journal, GA; Apropos, PA....)

Email: Gerald Zipper (via April Estrada, Literary Assistant)

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