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Invisible Monkeys

Kyle Hemmings

    You’re the head psychiatrist in a large university hospital. You’ve been handed the most challenging case of your career. A woman claims she’s being ravaged at night by her interior monkeys. She can’t hold a job or a relationship. Immediately you start her on a regimen of anti-malarial pills, meds for various forms of jungle sickness, order a series of brain MRIs. On the latest EEG tracings, you notice queer spikes from a well of sleep. In her drawings, she sketches monkeys in various postures of denial. She asks if you want to hear a good joke: Q. Why are pets not allowed in department stores? A. Because they can see through every shopper’s motive. You force a laugh. She fakes marsupial happiness/hides green monkey despair. One morning, a nurse rushes into your office. “Dr.,” she says, “we found Miss M hanging from the ceiling by three tethered monkey tails.” You know someone is sending you a message. At home, you turn on the lights, check to see that the cats are alright.

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