”Monkey See, Monkey Hear, Monkey Doodle”
How unoriginal.
The cowering criminal snaps his replicated empty statement;
a towering visual of stencils painted against an ageing
centre space with weather staining to its flat-walled relief.
The emanating pastoral green sash daubed between them
masks all beneath it, painting over the cracks.
By taking closer examination you’ll notice the hands
are overly caricatured for the motif in maxim,
folding unnaturally,
exposing the amateur’s woeful inaccuracies in direction of movement.
By attempting to humanise them,
the perspective is skewed with legs that protrude from the pelvis or pubis.
A single flaw its signatory didn’t think important.
If nothing else, it’s amusing.
The disproportioned limbs look awkward
sitting mawkishly against a curious red.
Surely the remnants of a rattling Krylon can,
held up to the wall until emptied,
or an attempt to cover up some poorly illegible scrawl that was left before the event.
Call it whatever.
It adds nothing more to the “message” conveyed.
A senseless rephrasing of an older expression that plays on the monkeys seminal names:
Mizaru,
Kikazaru,
Iwazaru.
It isn’t hard to link each part used when they’re translated.
You’re left with the saying “See not, hear not, speak not",
This key proponent seems lost on our cheap font using beat-off
with mismatched Impact lettering tacked to his re-doctored street offering.
The syntax here bothers me.
‘Observe, Listen, Reveal’ doesn’t concur with the ideal the proverbs triptych conceals.
It’s pitiful, really.
In truth the peaceful apophthegm has nothing to do with evil.
Stupid people.
The covering of the eyes, ears and mandible we find here in tandem promotes health of mind, speech and action.
It’s why each the “-zaru’s” or “saru’s”, were assigned to the figures,
mindful of this,
an insight that was missed by the writer that did it.
The irony is we’ve now the Three Wise Monkeys as defined by an idiot,
with a brain the size of a chimps.