Perspective

Recently, writers have attempted to refresh old stories by changing up the perspective. Rewriting the Cinderella fairy tale from the perspective of the wicked step-mother, or having the Big Bad Wolf tell about the Three Little Pigs and Red Riding Hood is interesting as long as a child has already heard the original. Trisha Speed Shaskan has a cute idea, but she is far from the first to tell "the other side of the story."

Many years ago an author whose name has been lost to history, wrote a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to Darwin's theory of evolution.

My dad owned a plaque with this poem when my brother and I were very young. He may have gotten it when he was in the Army in 1954. In 2010, someone who doesn't identify himself wrote a blog tribute to the poem and included excerpts from letters to Dear Abby wherein the writers claimed this person or that person actually wrote it. If I could find Dad's plaque, which may have been broken years ago, it might mention an author. Memory says it gives the credit to Anonymous. I know Someone Somewhere wrote it at least sixty-five years ago.
  
The Monkeys Disgrace

Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they're said to be.
Said one to another, "Now listen, you two,
There's a certain rumor that cannot be true,
That man descends from our noble race -
The very idea is a disgrace.

No monkey ever deserted his wife,
Starved her babies and ruined her life;
And you've never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk,
Or pass them on from one to another
Til they scarcely know who is their mother.

And another thing you'll never see -
A monk build a fence around a coconut tree
And let the coconuts go to waste,
Forbidding all other monks to taste.
Why, if I put a fence around this tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me.

Here's another thing a monk won't do -
Go out at night and get on a stew,
Or use a gun or club or knife
To take some other monkey's life;

Yes, Man Descended - That ornery cuss -
But, brother, he didn't descend from us!"
     - anonymous

reference:
http://lvtfan.typepad.com/lvtfans_blog/2010/02/the-monkeys-disgrace.html