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Sonnet on Awakening

When Hamlet said "to be, or not to be"
Each aspect of his life had hit a wall;
He wanted to debunk philosophy,
To solve the biggest riddle of them all. 
To do, or not to do? What's right? What's wrong?
Fall on his sword, or turn and stand and fight?
I always say the latter, still I long
To do "what's best for me", and do "what's right".

I'll go with Donne, I've done unlikelihood,
Wake up and smell the napalm in my tea;
Today or p'rhaps tomorrow I'll be good,
"What's right" could also be "what's best for me".
So is "what's right" therefore "what's best for you"?
Awakening, you know what you should do. 


© Sara Nicola Ruth

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⛱ Shakey 🎭 from Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1

To be, or not to be (Hamlet’s Soliloquy)

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

⛱ Albert Camus (1913-60):

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

⛱ John Donne (c1571-1631) from The Good-Morrow:

And now good morrow to our waking soules, 
Which watch not one another out of feare;

⛱ Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1979): 

Lieutenant Colonel William “Bill” Kilgore:  You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 

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