The Hamlet Project

What a way to say “about a minute and a half.”
This is one of those lines wherein a student is likely to say
“Why doesn’t he just say what he means?”
Which of course, he does. This is exactly what he means.
And the image of a moderately hurried guy
Standing there counting to a hundred
As a ghost stands there with his beaver up
Looking very pale is pretty kick-ass.
Maybe Horatio has a counting man in his imagination
The way they tell people working on their anger to count to ten,
Horatio’s got a guy in his mind
Who shows up and starts counting
When the going gets scary.
When everything you ever believed
Is crashing down around you
I can see that a man
Just saying number after number
Might be very reassuring.