THE RUB

Thought I'd reread Hamlet for kicks

& get off on my sweet smart self

& smirk at my familiar fandom

Not so

The Dane kicked my ass

Down the stairs to the sidewalk

Rolled me across the macadam

& left me unconscious

Against a wall of

Thick

Red

Brick

"I could be bounded in a nutshell,

and count myself a king of infinite space,

were it not that I have bad dreams."

When I awoke

I saw fear

Womb-like

As in a dream