A part of a first folio?
May. 13th, 2008 07:49 pmInstead of ranting on something having to do with the election (despite the fact that it appears that West Virginia is so racist and sexist that John Edwards, who's not even on the ballot is getting 7% of the vote--but I digress), or ranting on Shatner as I was contemplating doing, and because there was an article on TrekMovie.com congratulating Patrick Stewart on his Tony nomination for MacBeth I decided to post a sonnet as a reply. Besides Star Trek, this weekend I borrowed The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare to enhance my grasp of Western canon, so this was my first sonnet (I only had to memorize soliloquys from Hamlet in high school):
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Today word of the Scottish play we spake?
For its title, cursed this website be?
Tip’d and so pointed with irony’s sake
Vulcan ears may only the grace on he!
Save us from witchcraft and the devil’s hate!
Damn-ed along with this poem’s meter
Coupled perhaps with proper rhyme fate
Credible naught must this poem peter.
Perhaps if logic gave itself to me
Vulcans and captains would be granted peace
But no logic in this work now finds thee.
More irony: Vulcan pervades this piece
As with P.S. and JLP’s commit
Here lies another damn Star Trek sonnet