Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

And what happens now? The play is over and the villains 

Have won?

Lin Manuel Miranda understands how

Storytelling is the most important part of history.

Which begs the question, if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 

are the oafs Tom Stoppard would lead us to 

Believe, how come these two gentlemen

Seized the imagination of so many generations? 

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

So who's left standing on this stage? On this

Rock as we fly through the void? 

The ushers understand that once the play is over they must

Sweep the theatre and throw out all the popcorn that has

Fallen from hands and mouths agape to the floor.

Shakespeare demands us to ask, can we ever do anything but 

Destroy? But the ushers would like us to

Just clean up after ourselves please.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

The Dog won't have to sleep on the potatoes anymore

--William Carlos Williams