This is the year of the Monkey.
It’s kind of funky
being a monkey,
to which
they add wood,
so I’m a Wood Monkey,
which might mean I am a
block headed, funky monkey.
My wife, otherwise known
in the Zodiac as Rat,
surely would agree.

Wiki states that I, as a Monkey,
am capable of great good, (I) make
a great leader but (am) rather un-
predictable…intelligent, magnanimous,
charismatic, charming, authoritative,
confident, eloquent and artistic,
(Wiki could stop there.) but can be
manipulative, jealous, selfish,
aggressive, vindictive or deceitful.

I, of course, in the first
half of that description
do see
my manifest destiny,
but my wife, the Rat, might
opt for the second half
of the paragraph.
I’ll simply concede
that I, very well, could
have a head
carved of very hard wood
but, in my defense,
I have a heart to melt
a Zodiac Rat’s resistance.