Who sprinkles pepper in my pot?
Upon my wall who laid this crack?
Who deals my cards, who writes my plot?
How comes this monkey on my back?
The monkey on your back is you.
The lurker on the landing is
Your nemesis. You know it’s true
You made the killer and his kiss.
\Agent provocateur of sin,
You built the mad menagerie:
The bars you clang, the cage you’re in
You forged in your mind factory.
Never, never, never again!—
And yet the horror’s back, it’s here!
The maggot festers in the brain,
The monkey gibbers in your ear!
~
1 comment:
In business there is a Monkey Management methodology covering the expression "getting the monkey off your back".
In a management context, the "monkey" is a metaphor for issues/projects/problems that small businesses deal with.
As a manager, you are responsible for the "monkey" but you should "get it off your back" and have others "feed" it, "groom" it, etc. and they , in turn, should "get the monkey off their backs" and return it to you in better shape than when you turned it over to them.
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