HAMLET
Let me see.
Takes the skull
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio:
a fellow of infinite jest...
SKULL
Lower jaw rattles
Lower jaw rattles
Hey Hammy, why did the chicken cross the road?
HAMLET
Not now. I'm soliloquizing.
SKULL
Sorry, Hammy. You know me.
Infinite jest. If I didn't jest now,
it'd be like the play was poorly written or something.
HAMLET
There’s no way I’m iambing about being borne
on your back a thousand times now.
Drops the skull, enters next melodrama
SKULL
Hey Horatio. Knock-knock?
HORATIO
Retires
Hey Horatio. Knock-knock?
HORATIO
Retires
I like the humor of the skull trying to tell jokes and Hamlet not putting up with them. Nice gerunding of iambing.
ReplyDeleteA lot shorter than the last Infinite Jest I read, thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteAlas, poor Hammy! lol
ReplyDeleteI could become very fond that that skull!
ReplyDeletePoor Yorrik- no one left to listen to him? I was kinda hoping to hear Hamlet's views on the chicken crossing the street...:p
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