if william shakespeare were to write a blog today

it would be written in the argot of the contemporary 

blogger, it would be far removed from the sonnet

or the the argument of comedy or tragedy

the prose would be accessible and plain

flat as the champagne two days after the honeymoon

the accent might be transatlantic rather than warwick

shire, as for the very content, here it would not

depart from the norm, something about the everyday

kept short and trim, "went bowling last night"

watched football or american idol, however he might

venture to discuss the question of justice...

and if he did, then perhaps it would require more

than the inane.