word prompt:

bastardized

Shaking Up The Classics
by Elizabeth Brahy
Would Shakespeare be surprised To see his plays so bastardized, Musical-ized, comic-book-sized? The classics must be lionized. Yet wouldn’t we soon forget Poor Hamlet and dear Juliet If we didn’t renew and reinterpret? Shakespeare can handle it I bet!
This poem originally appeared in Round 1 of Madness! Poetry 2013. The original match page in which this poem was featured is no longer available.
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