Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Shakespeare: Will Needs an Intervention - poem

 Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

William Needs an Intervention

 

Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 42

 

Will, we need to talk:

                                      this is all your grief

Your friend and your lover aren’t grieving at all

I’ve seen them swanning around The Swan in Southwark

Catching Pembroke’s Men in The Isle of Dogs

 

They saw your Julius Caesar here at the Globe

But were mostly canoodling high up in the back row

I cannot imagine they were admiring your wonderful verse

Grieving over the deaths of Romans, or thinking of you

 

Give over your hoping, your moping, your sighing, your wishing -

The Avon’s down the road; we should go fishing

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