Sunday, March 23, 2025

Who is the Third Murderer in MACBETH? - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

 

 

Who is the Third Murderer in Macbeth?

 

But who did bid thee join with us?

 

-Macbeth III.iii.1

 

Two murderers are hired; a third one joins

The false lady, perhaps, or the tempter himself

As light and love both thicken near the rooky wood

“But who did bid thee join…?” Maybe we did

 

We have drooped and drowsed through civilization

Scorning the sacred texts of our several faiths

Approaching the Altar as a drive-through concession

The Body of Christ and maybe an order of fries

 

Who is the Third Murderer?

                                                Rabbi, is it I?

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