The Hamlet Project

How does a ghost demonstrate offense?
Does he throw up his hands and say “Ach!”?
Does he open his mouth and gasp
Before stalking away?
In ghost stories, the kind wherein you can’t see them,
Just their antics,
They will slam doors
Or shut off lights, nay, flash them.
They will rock your bed
Bang your pots and pans
And walk the floor, making floorboards creak
When there’s no one home.
But how does one see offense in the ephemeral face
Of a phantom?
What helps a person read offense in a spirit face?
And what was said that would suggest it might be offended?
The mention of heaven?
Being charged to speak, when in life, this spirit could be commanded by no one?
Having one’s body addressed in lieu of one’s self?
Marcellus, how do you know?