The Hamlet Project

This is what makes Hamlet so human –
This listening to himself speak
Listening to himself think.
He begins with something – a thought bubbling
Then suddenly, he sees what is there bubbling and has to
Remark on the bubble he just posited.
We all – nay – most
Of us
Do this all the time.
Like, just yesterday –
No it wasn’t yesterday
It was last week – –
Can you believe how time passes like that?
Is it the human experience to marvel at the inconceivability
Of time? To look at what we have
and wonder. To reflect and find ourselves stunned.
The two things that we cannot ever get our heads
All the way around
Time and death
Both together in this sentence
So humanly wrapped up in one another
Like a knot of experience
Impossible to untangle.