tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post113267237240834413..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: The Monkey Gull & the Palace Pot BoyMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1132796966528470132005-11-23T20:49:00.000-05:002005-11-23T20:49:00.000-05:00Mr. Simpson,I am not the Chamber Pot Boy. I am the...Mr. Simpson,<BR/><BR/>I am <I>not</I> the Chamber Pot Boy. I am the Pot Boy and belong to the kitchen. I am, of course, royalty in rags, and, as such, rather well educated. (Little Latin, Less Greek, all that sort of thing.)<BR/><BR/>M. had a pretty festive birthday despite herself and will be back anon. (She has, by the by, some kind of awful story about seagulls on the Ocracoke ferry, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1132793265817399912005-11-23T19:47:00.000-05:002005-11-23T19:47:00.000-05:00... Myiopsitta monachus, that is.... Myiopsitta monachus, that is.James Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08585503137697939756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1132793187298558082005-11-23T19:46:00.000-05:002005-11-23T19:46:00.000-05:00My, but the Chamber Pot Boy is ultra-literate! Gre...My, but the Chamber Pot Boy is ultra-literate! Green monkeys on the Outer Banks? Reminds me of the wild Quaker parrots (also Monk parakeets, <I>Myiopsitta monachus</I>)of the Central Gulf Coast of Florida. Worse than tourists they were, but at least tourist wouldn't soil your shirt from above.James Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08585503137697939756noreply@blogger.com