Two-thousand-eighteen Shades Of Bromford - Part 395 & Part 396

 

Today is Tuesday, the 14th of October, 2025.

Do you really think the monkeys want to take over the control? one of the astro-cats asked. I just wonder how. Look what they sent, twenty-eight see-no-evil monkeys and six hear-no-evil ones. Do you think those are the best they have got?

A see-no-evil-monkey and a hear-no-evil-monkey, one of the scorpions wondered, that kind of rings a bell like I have heard about that before.

The four dragon cats took their chance to tell their story.

Of course, they said, we come from Japan. And everybody in Japan knows about the three wise monkeys. They are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'. We should ask our so-called guru if he can tell us more about them. Or if he maybe has got a philosophical quote by Chinese philosopher Confucius of the Spring and Autumn period.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety, as Confucius once said, said Twenty-Five, the tawny owl.

They did it, whispered the ants.

Who did what?, the crickets wanted to know.

The Army of the Twelve Monkeys, the ants still whispered. And what they did? We will have to wait and see. We will still have to find out what they did.

And as if to prove all of them right fourteen speak-no-evil-monkeys joined the six hear-no-evil-monkeys, the twenty-eight see-no-evil-monkeys, the twenty astro-cats, the twelve hipster-cats, the four dragon cats, the twenty-seven hacker cats, the nineteen stunt cats, the eleven ninja-cats, the three pouting cats, the twenty-six crying cats, the eighteen weary cats, the ten kissing cats, the two cats with wry smiles, the twenty-four smiling cats with heart-eyes, the sixteen cats with tears of joy, the eight grinning cats with smiling eyes, the thirty-one grinning cats, the twenty-three spiders, the fifteen scorpions, the seven ladybugs, the twenty-nine bees, the twenty-one ants, the thirty crickets, the twenty-two mosquitoes, the fourteen caterpillars, the six snails, the twenty-six butterflies, the eighteen bats, the ten more chicks, the two chicks, the twenty-five chicks, the seventeen penguins, the nine little red birds, and the one little tawny owl…

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"Walking Into Bromford"

When I was born I was running
As my feet hit the ground
Before I could talk I was humming
An old railroad sound
Things didn't get much better
When by the age of five
They found me walking into Bromford
Trying to keep my friends alive
No time for celebration
Now there's no known cure
Seeing I was born and raised
On the wrong killing floor
And my loved ones gathered round
To see if the experiment had worked
I was misplaced out of time
Never rich – never worse

Oh momma, please don't cry for me
Tears to the river – tears to be free
And I see twelve white horses walking in line
Moving east across that river bridge
On highway forty-nine
And standing in the shadows of a burnt out motel
The King of Commerce Mississippi waited with his hound from hell
A shiny neon riverboat taking income from the poor
It's floating by the levee in an artificial pool
There's a six-mile tailback back out on junction 304
A stranger at the crossroads
I believe I'd seen his face before
Oh, don't cry for me
Tears fill the river – tears to be free
I'm sad to be leaving
The sun's gone down and I've really got to go now
Sad to be leaving
The sun's gone down – I've really got to go now
Yeah, really got to go now
I've got to go – I've got to move
Sad to be leaving
Sun's gone down – I've really got to go now
Sad to be leaving
The sun's gone down and I've really got to go now
Yeah, really got to go now

"Fort Bromford"

I count my blessings slow
And hope I don't run low
It seems God has a bone to pick with me
And He will not stop picking till I go

Oh, my dear Fort Bromford
Will we meet again
Oh, she sings a bittersweet refrain
But the apple of my eye is still Fort Bromford

I count my blessings loud
And pray I don't run out
It seems God has a thing or two to say
About those skeletons He found inside my house

Oh, my dear Fort Bromford
Will we meet again
Oh, she sings a bittersweet refrain
But the apple of my eye is still Fort Bromford

Oh, she sings a bittersweet refrain
But the apple of my eye is still Fort Bromford
Oh, she sings a bittersweet refrain
But the apple of my eye is still Fort Bromford

Oh, the apple of my eye is still Fort Bromford

Mizaru (見猿)
    Kikazaru (聞か猿)
    Iwazaru (言わ猿)

The Three Wise Monkeys