Lawrence Hall, HSG
Shakespeare, Venus, and the Travelling Salesman
Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 19
Dear Will,
About your obsession with mortality:
Transitions and death are essentials in life
And we must face the obsequies of ashes or earth
But there are other topics upon which to write
Let us not consider funerals today
Let us sit upon the lawn and smoke our pipes
And write about new leaves on ancient oaks
(You’ll pen far better lines; you always do)
Today we’ll ignore our own mortality
And tell inappropriate jokes about Venus
and a travelling salesman
