I shall th’effect of this good lesson keep
As watchman to my heart.’
Ophelia, in Shakespeare’s HAMLET,
to her brother ‘Bubba’ (christened Polonius)
Ophelia loves her wild odontoglossum
and tells her chillun that its toothy grin
enhances collard greens and easter possum
adorning Bubba’s tie and triple chin.
‘I’ll swan,’ she vamps, ‘I surely love a blossom
and he’ll eat what I serve him, sure as sin.’
Bubba belches, goes out in the yard
to throw some horseshoes, tell his friends life’s hard.
It sure is hard for Horace, that’s the pony
who wears the shoes that Bubba aims to throw.
Ophelia fears they’ll cost her all the money
that she acquired on travels long ago
so she calls old Bubba back for some spumone
laced with bacon fat and greens to make him grow.
While Horace grazes odes till he has fits
old Bubba gets outside some glaze-fried grits.