May You Never Rest In Peace

Wednesday Prose Poem: the inserted story

Paroma Sen
Scrittura
Published in
2 min readOct 3, 2021

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Image by Steve Johnson from Pixabay

How very convenient, Mr. Shakespeare — some might call what you did plain old appropriation — I won’t use any such elevated word — you are a burglar, a thief — you plain old just stole our story —

What’s worse — you made it yours by changing the very essence of it — the Montagues and Capulets fighting, always fighting —…

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Paroma Sen
Scrittura

“Do not go gentle into that good night, but rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light.”