Shakespeare

A week ago, an unexpected treat:
All home on a Friday night.

I made the boys watch
Much Ado About Nothing,

As Shakespeare has been on my list
Of “Don’t let them leave home without it”

Things for the boys to learn.
One of the boys, miserable, cried through the first half.

(But one of the boys laughed so hard,
He almost fell off the couch.)

Tonight we had a reprise,
So we enjoyed Twelfth Night.

We missed the jester’s lines, of course,
But when the entire group

Broke into laughter at the duel,
I enjoyed a moment of timelessness.

Four hundred years now
Have people been laughing at Shakespeare.