Lawrence Hall, HSG
Shakespeare, Venus, and the Travelling Salesman
Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 19
Dear Will,
About your obsession with
mortality:
Transitions and death are
essentials in life
And we must face the obsequies
of ashes or earth
But there are other topics
upon which to write
Let us not consider funerals
today
Let us sit upon the lawn
and smoke our pipes
And write about new leaves
on ancient oaks
(You’ll pen far better
lines; you always do)
Today we’ll ignore our own
mortality
And tell inappropriate
jokes about Venus
and a travelling salesman
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