did you die, Ophelia? did you drown yourself? I heard you looked pretty and glorious in your best dress and with flowers all ready to meet your Maker; they tell me it was so beautiful one could only cry to see you in the water… did you **** yourself darling Ophelia because I told you to go join a nunnery? did you think your love’s words meant a nunnery is the same as death and so honored mad Hamlet’s words that way? you could have chosen a drier type of death, you know – though death by drowning, dearest Ophelia, dying in a stream and being wet you save the living the trouble of washing you… did you die, did you drown darling Ophelia thinking Poor, poor Hamlet is gone mad…? …thinking…. There is nothing left when a noble soul goes insane… did you die, Ophelia? did you drown yourself? or is that just some new fashion you’ve invented darling Ophelia of taking a beauty bath?
Companion picture: Ophelia by John Everett Millais