posted March 13, 2005 08:36 AM           

The dragons, the demons without and within
The Champion the Savior Archangels and Superman
Can no one see the scratch marks
Hear his pitiful silence as he bleeds?

Eyes like windows span the breath of your soul
A million questions, favors and pleas
Yearnings for deliverance, forgiveness and peace
Die untold deaths on quivering lips

posted March 14, 2005 09:50 PM         

Some words are sacred,
it hurts to speak them openly.

But I hear you speak them
(you speak of revolution),
and they echo in my heart;
they echo upon the waters;
the waters tremble before your voice.

posted March 14, 2005 09:52 PM         

KING CLAUDIUS
Pluck them asunder.

QUEEN GERTRUDE
Hamlet, Hamlet!

All
Gentlemen,--

HORATIO
Good my lord, be quiet.

The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave

HAMLET
Why I will fight with him upon this theme
Until my eyelids will no longer wag.

QUEEN GERTRUDE
O my son, what theme?

HAMLET
I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?

KING CLAUDIUS
O, he is mad, Laertes.

QUEEN GERTRUDE
For love of God, forbear him.

HAMLET
'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:
Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?
Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?
To outface me with leaping in her grave?
Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.