My skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once ...

Alas, poor life! I lived once, Horatio, a life

of infinite potential, of most excellent affection:

it has borne me to a thousand places and back;

and now, how wasted in my recollection it is! My mind

pukes at it. Here hang these lips that were kissed so oft -

where be my wit now? my puns? my flashes of existence

that were to set the world in an uproar? Not one now

to deprecate my own self? quite use-fallen?

Now get me to my death’s own chamber, and tell her,

let me be buried many inches thick, to this fool’s errand

I have come; and you may all laugh at that …

 

 

PS: My apologies, Bill, but hell - you had it coming!

Reviews

[Lily Mae]

I love it..x

[Teri B]

Oh you wicked, wicked man! Shakespeare would probably find this bit of satire amusing! "Quite use-fallen" indeed! Thanks for the smiles!

[Safe&sound<3 ♫]

ahaha! i love the PS.(: very very good(:

[Ruth]

Blimey! This is a hit! LOL AWESOME! Faved and down right needed this! Powerful and blistering! Woahhh! xx

[Poetic Beauty]

this piece is unique and different. I like the creative way you wrote this and the story being told.

[Coyote Poetry]

I like your poetry. Using hero's of the past to make your point. I love the myths and old literature. We can learn many things from the old writer's.
"and now, how wasted in my recollection it is! My mind
pukes at it. Here hang these lips that were kissed so oft -
where be my wit now? my puns? my flashes of existence
that were to set the world in an uproar? Not one now
to deprecate my own self? quite use-fallen?"
Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote

[Jo]

hilarious: "My mind pukes at it."

[Larry Dyson]

familiarity with Bill....hmmmm...William I guess.... poor yoric with a tongue in his skull.

[miSS LEaf]

The story behind this should be very interesting, i think, as is the poem itself. Intelligently intense~