Poems of the Week

What Are the Odds?

by Steven Kent

“Universe would die before monkey [or chimpanzee] with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds”
The Guardian

A million chimps can type until the world has ceased to be
And never pen a Hamlet, Caesar, Lear, or Richard Three.
Surprised? I must confess, my friends, I lost the urge to bet
On random writing monkeys once I saw the internet.