To Get Or Not To Get

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Holiday time deserves some experiment, given the tired and worn formulas represent fewer lasting values each year. A perplexing dilemma from the Bard provides some exploratory holiday-rumination.

To Get Or Not To Get
                       by Odin Roark

To be
Or
Not to be
May not be the question

For is it not nobler
To suffer slings and arrows 
Of outrageous fortune
In order for empowerment
To discover one needn’t
Take up arms against a sea
Of troubles merely to oppose them
But to manage them

Might outrageous fortune’s only reward
Be to die
To sleep
To realize the rub?

For in death by riches
What dreams may come
Atop one’s mortal coil
Having been shuffled off?  

Such must give us pause

To get or not to get
Begs solemn discretion
And being prudent
Of what we ask for
May allow our satisfied needs 
To serve well our bearing of ills we have
Rather than fly to others
We know not of

Soft you now fair holiday—nymph
In thy orisons
Be all my bafflement remembered

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