It's Groundhog Day!
Waking with deja-vu, I hear the faint sound of voices…
Saying…
I believe…
“And my poor fool is hang’d! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more.
Never, never, never, never, never!
Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.
(Do you see this? Look on her! Look! Her lips!
Look there, look there!) O, O, O, O.” King Lear
“I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No
Way but this, killing myself to die upon
A kiss.” Othello
The patent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England.
But I do prophesy th’election lights
On Fontinbras. He has me dying voice.
So tell him, with th’occurrents more and less
Which have solicited - the rest is silence.” Hamlet
“With worms that are thy chambermaids, O here
Will I set up my everlasting rest
And shake the yolk of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! And lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come bitter conduct, come unsavory guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!
Here’s to my love. O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” Romeo
“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!” Juliet
“Follow my children.
It is my turn to be your pathfinder,
As you have been to me. Come do not touch me.
Leave me to find the way to the sacred grave.
Where this land’s soil is to enclose my bones.
This way. . .This way . . .Hermes is leading me.
And the Queen of the Nether World. This way . . .This way . . .
Dark day! How long since thou wast light to me!
Farewell! I feel my last of thee. Death’s night
Now ends my life forever.
Blessings attend
Your land and all that serve you and yourself,
My best-loved friend; and in your blessedness,
That it may be yours for ever. Remember me.” Oedipus
“O lost and damned!
This is my last and only word to you
Forever!” Jocasta
Rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I rise, and listen intently,
To hear from which direction they speak
Today.
“Believe... this button... a kiss...
The news... with worms... yea noise...
Touch me... my last... today...”
