The Hamlet Project

It sounds like a show put this way. Like there’s an admission charge
And a box office to buy tickets for the ritual.
What if people did buy tickets for funerals?
What if they were spectacles for which you angled to get a comp
Or got a wealthy patron to make a donation so you could accompany him to the funeral?
Theatre is a ritual, too.
But it’s a very expensive one around here
And after I’ve paid my admission fee, it often feels like an empty one
Like the funeral of a man that no one liked but we still have to go.