George Henry Hall, American
Shakespeare Wondering If He Should Screw It and Just Use ChatGPT, 1896
Oil on canvas
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/// That month Shakespeare consumed so much mutton,
Richard Burbage proclaimed him a glutton.
His doublet’s so tight
that, try as he might,
the Bard can’t fasten closed every button.
/// Shakespeare found he liked dressing this way.
It felt comfy, yet also risqué.
He continued to strip,
(a “malfunction” nip-slip),
because where there’s a Will there’s a way.
/// “Exhibitionists aren’t well-bred.”
Will was told by the woman he wed.
He did NOT have his way,
due to Anne Hathaway,
so he left her his second-best bed.
/// Though Will sulked, Anne just wouldn’t keep quiet.
She suggested he go on a diet.
He could keep his gut belted
‘til too solid flesh melted,
but, like Falstaff, the Bard wouldn’t try it.
/// Be they Comedy, Tragedy, History—
just who wrote Shakespeare’s plays is a mystery.
Could this man who seemed plain
have the requisite brain?
Quote: “Ay, there’s the rub” (leaving us blistery).