Black Coffee Muse
an excerpt

So it was boasted, at some random point in time and by an omnipotent being of indeterminate origin who we will call "O" for lack of a better name, to another omnipotent being of indeterminate origin who we will call "M", that if one had at his disposal, an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters, then at some point a monkey would produce the collected works of William Shakespeare. Being skeptical of this claim, M challenged O to put this claim to the test.

Being a being of vast resource O immediately set to work, and hired an infinite number of monkeys. Setting up payrolls, pension plans, and health benefits became the job of a truly stellar accounting department, and they succeeded spectacularly. Also acquired was an adequately sized office building, and placed into it the infinite number of typewriters (to include a few fine Smith Corona). Immediately the infinite monkeys set to work.

Realized of course, by O and his stellar accounting department, was that when the infinite monkeys went about the goal of producing the collected works of William Shakespeare, not one monkey alone would produce these collected works, but in fact a great many would. So many would produce these masterpieces of the English language, that their number would be infinite itself. It would work out that the entire infinite monkey work force equaled the number of Shakespearean monkeys minus the number of Nonshakespearean monkeys over infinite itself, therefore the Shakespearean monkeys numbered infinite, as did the Nonshakespeareans. Unfortunately before any of the infinite monkeys produced even their Forward to the collected works of William Shakespeare, events went tragically downhill.

One lone monkey, indistinguishable from the rest, came to O with what would turn out to be the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe, neatly organized and presented with a smile. While the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe may be considered among the most significant in the English language, this was not his assignment and so he was promptly fired. This led immediately to unforeseen chaos, as without that single monkey, the infinite monkeys were no longer infinite - they had become finite.

If there was a single monkey for every atom in the entire universe, the odds of those monkeys producing the collected works of William Shakespeare is so abysmally low as to not to be worth the attempt. The original vision of the project was scrubbed, followed by mass monkey layoffs, crying, and woe. The stellar accounting department handled it surprisingly well.

For O's response to this unexpected turn of events, it was decided, upon reflection, to take the experiment in a new direction. O concluded that if only one monkey was used, to type on a single typewriter for an infinite amount of time, then that monkey could produce the collected works of Shakespeare entirely on his own. Ironically the only monkey to survive the great monkey fallout with his sanity intact was the original monkey fired, the one who had once produced the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe. Forgiven, the last infinite monkey was rehired, though only at a fraction of the original pay and with virtually no benefits. He was given the last typewriter (a Smith Corona procured from an antiques dealer who specializes in such things just west of Spokane, Washington), and then locked in a room with only a chair, a lamp, and a desk to set the Smith Corona on, until infinite ends.