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Sonnet on Hypocrisy

Had I a pound for each time you say "gay"
To mean inferior or Double Dutch,
I'd be so wealthy. Careful what you say;
Methinks the lady doth protest too much. 
I tested you by baiting you on him, 
Your homophobia was off the scale,
Don't take me for a fool, I'm not that dim,
Your hetero machismo is a fail. 

I wonder how your girlfriend likes this sham,
How happy is she that she lies for you?
And what about your mates, your "fam-a-lam",
How many of them in your closet too?
T'were ethical to out you then I would,
Hypocrisy does no one any good. 


© Sara Nicola Ruth

Big up Shakey 🎭

Yes I know I turned the quote around, it was deliberate.

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks” is a quotation from the 1602 play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It has been used as a figure of speech, in various phrasings, to indicate that a person’s overly frequent or vehement attempts to convince others of something have ironically helped to convince others that the opposite is true, by making the person look insincere and defensive.

In rhetorical terms, the phrase can be thought of as indicating an unintentional apophasis – where the speaker who “protests too much” in favor of some assertion puts into others’ minds the idea that the assertion is false, something that they may not have considered before.

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