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Especially when a writer scribbles up a stink,</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Attracted by the aroma they scuttle through the night,<br />Minkys are nocturnal beasties' that really loathe the light.</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /><br />They often make a threatening call and when the writer says “Who?”
</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They scuttle on his writing pad and lick off a drop or two,</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They hide in newspapers, corporations and government halls,</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They sometimes wear uniforms and love to make phone calls.</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
They are the minions of <i>whatever</i> the powers that be,</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Making sure that ink is drunk in sufficient quantity,</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The triumph of the Minky is not when it drinks a scrawl,</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s when a writer does not write, without a Minky there at all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">History</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Latin name: Censor putredinem</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">First described by <a href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=zq... style="color: blue;">Wang Tai-Hai,</span></a> Chinese travel writer, and author of miscellany 1791, in Northern China. Accounts of them have been noted in the writings of Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) on his journey to the North Pole in 1909 with several omissions in his accounts being attributed to said creature, especially part about him not having reached said Pole. Also noted in the writings of many explorers, anthropologists and all court historians.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Species excerpt from <b>"A Field Guide to Common Monsters" </b>Ryan Lobo (c)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><samp class="EmbedCode-container" data-reactid=".0.2.$EmbedCode.1.1.0"><code class="EmbedCode-code" data-reactid=".0.2.$EmbedCode.1.1.0.0"><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/ryanlobo"&gt... @ryanlobo</a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="http://ryanlobo.blogspot.com//platfor... </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>