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Nov 2023
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com

                                       The First Folio of...You?

                  On the 400th anniversary of the First Folio
                  Of some playwright or other in England

I fear that there will never, ever be
A First Folio of the works of – Me!
Bound in leather most luxuriously
For sale at a wildly exorbitant fee

Scanned for pleasure over cups of tea
And studied by academics thoughtfully
Beloved by the climbing bourgeoise
As much as by the high nobility

I can’t adorn my poems with a PhD
So will kind readers accept a high school degree?
Shakespeare's First Folio is featured in an excellent episode of GREAT PERFORMANCES on PBS.
Written by
Lawrence Hall
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