Lawrence Hall, HSG
[email protected] 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