If Ogden Nash had rewritten Hamlet's famous soliloquoy, he might have come up with this:
An Ogden Nash version of Hamlet:
To be or not to be, that's quite a question
A real head-scratcher, a thought-provoking suggestion
To live, to sleep, to dream, what's the fuss?
In slumber we're kings and queens, nothing's too much
In that sleep of death, what dreams may come?
A symphony of wonders, or silence and humdrum?
To take arms against a sea of troubles, or to flee?
That's the million-dollar query, the root of the spree
The heartache, the thousand shocks, it's all a part of the game
We play it by ear, and sometimes it's a shame
To die, to sleep, to dream, it's all just fate
A flip of the coin, who knows what's on the plate?
And thus, the play's the thing, it's where we have our fun
We're all just actors, in the grand scheme, a comic pun
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