Notes About The Poem
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
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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