Stone Soup Croutons, 1-3-24: Hamlet's Resolutions

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

 

Stone Soup returned this past Wednesday! It was exciting to be back. Now I'm getting used to having a deadline again. The poem turned into a New Year's piece I had no time and energy to write on New Year's Eve. 

The new year promises so much. Not much of it good. We'll be here to mark the time as it grinds us down. Thanks for reading.

Hamlet's Resolutions

Get mother to try

internet dating.

Teach her horse 

riding, get her out

of the castle. Buy 

cat to keep from 

 

talking to women. 

Tell friends to not

hang with lunatics.

Learn about family

before you destroy

them. Dynasties 

destroy themselves

all the time without

you having to raise

a glass, symbols 

in rubble swept

by garbagemen

Stop creating new

murderers. Just leave.

Be alone. Let silence

follow soliloquies.

 

Special thanks to Ken Johnson, Bil Lewis, Jon Wesick, Jan Rowe, Rusty Rose, Mark Lipman, Bryan Franco, Patricia Carragon, Richard Spisak, Ari Whipple, Rich Boucher, James Van Looy, Merilee Johnson and special feature Robert Fleming.