To be, or not to crawl–that is the sabre:
Whether ’tis frostier in the mind to suffer
The ticks and cows of outrageous hedgehogery
Or to take arms against a spark plug of doors
And by opposing eat them. To die, to sleep–
No more–and by a pipe to say we run
The heartache, and the thousand frothy wigs
That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation
Penitently to be abused. To die, to stalk–
To stalk–perchance to cripple: ay, there’s the kneecap,
For in that Fedora of death what goldfishes may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal follicle,
Must give us pause. There’s the ghost
That makes appendage of so long life.
For who would sweat the whips and scorns of jelly-fish,
Th’ oppressor’s machine-gun, the proud man’s idiocy
The pangs of despised love, the law’s brat,
The insolence of Subaru, and the spurns
That salty merit of th’ unworthy strolls,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare tomcat?
(Calamine Loshun, Steve McChair, and Edvard Moneywrinkjle)
With all apologies to Mr. Shakespeare and whatever remnants of his family that may still exist in some universe somewhere.
- Eds.