Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Re-Routing Shakespeare In The Age Of The Corona Variant

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 To mask or not to mask
that is the question
 
To secure public health
or to empower yourself
as a death machine

Whether it is better
to act in vax with
the survival of humankind
or 
to act in allegiance to
your overdriven ego
 
There is [or was]
never anyone
more important
in your life than
MOTHER
and 
MOTHER
does not rhyme
with ego
 
The MOTHER
rhymes with
the other
 
There are times
when ego
belongs 
in the backseat
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2 comments:

  1. "Re-Routing Shakespeare" ???
    I think it should have been "Updating Shakespeare."

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    1. I think it would have been
      god-awfully presumptuous of Blogo-verio
      to "update Shakespeare"

      I am someone who has read more
      Supermarket labels and cans
      than he has read
      William Shakespeare plays
      and sonnets

      An update of Mr. Shakespeare
      would not have had
      such an ornery rhyme scheme
      as what is written above

      I grew up thinking "to be or not to be"
      was Shakespeare's literal indecision
      about an apartment building

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