Monkey
(free translation, by the author) 

They took the monkey
From his mother`s breasts
A baby monkey
Covered with soft fur
Sucking his thumb
Born in a lab
Never walked the earth.
Never seen the sun.

They took the monkey
From his mother`s breasts
He cried all night
Sucking his thumb
And in the morning
They put him in a box
And a tiny electrode
“It doesn`t really hurt,
there, there, it`s all over,”
He drilled into his head
And kept on saying, “never fear,
It`s alright, we`ll proceed
With the drilling, only next day,
It`s for the benefit of science,
It`s good.”

And a little boy
Asked his mother
To go to the zoo
To the animal safari
And he saw the monkeys there
And he threw them sweets and peanuts,
And daddy paid for it all,
The Professor …

(remark - I was told that Bar Ilan U has a huge underground animal lab ... how are the mighty fallen. We cannot say that we didn`t know !) 

© Liora Sara Bernstein

כשבלייזי חזר מהרופא
הוא הִלְחִית   וצרח כִּכְרוּכְיָה[1]
כל הדרך רִיֵּר ויילל
מבועת, ממאן להירגע.
הן לא עשיתי לו רע
החזקתי אותו לצדי
במושב הקדמי
בכלובו,
שלם ובהכרה מלאה,
ואף על פי יילל
כי לבלייזי מותר לבכות,
ונראה לבסוף רפוי כסמרטוט,
רטוב ומגואל בשיער וברוק,
רק עיניו בערו יבשות,
כי לחתולים אין דמעות,
גם לא לאלה שבמעבדות,
שם אסור לבכות.

מאי 2005