Let’s rerun the play, take up strings, so the puppets can start fresh their dance.
Summon the old ghosts— Shakespeare’s doomed heroes —pronounce them reborn.
Recall the actors, lead horses from their pastures, raise the curtains.
Pay Shylock his pound of flesh, give Richard his horse, let Viola love anew.
Old, ever-hallowed villainy, once banished, has taken new stage.
Human suffering, live—don’t fret, you won’t miss it —it’ll come to you. . . Songs for this: Kool Thing by Sonic Youth End of the innocence by Don Henley The Perfect Idiot by Fievel Is Glauque
Merriam Webster word of the day challenge: Hallowed = something or someone, highly respected and revered.