The Hamlet's Departure Poem by Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

The Hamlet's Departure

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'Respiré de ese humo amargo de tu adiòs
Y desde que tù te fuiste yo solo tengo...'.
Mom is always mom. Oedipus started without knowing it.
A murder was on a sunny clobbed paving among olive trees.
An incest was among the walls of dark ash-lar in an old palace.
And the deserted child got lost in the old world
Thinking he had found the new world.
On the ramparts of the castle, in his prince clothes, Hamlet meets his father's ghost.]
The wind blows upon the poor prince of Denmark
Who won't kill his stepfather but all the others.
Hamlet, you couldn't return
Now you can only go away.
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The quotation is from the lyric 'Camisa Negra'.

The Hamlet's Departure
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
In the picture: "A Special Day" by E. Scola, Italy,1977; "Try to believe what it means to be a housewife with a husband and two sons at home! "
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Onelia Avelar 14 July 2008

I like the peculiar dialogue with ancient and classical authors often possible through your erudite works here. Hamlet seems to be so close, as if the reader can talk to him. Quite strange and exciting approach...

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Ann Bell 04 July 2008

your piece is enjoyable and rare

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