@Hamlet

Polonius would have understood
the seductive nature of Twitter:

the opportunity to listen in
upon intimacy and
usually unexpressed thought

though he had a purpose in mind
unlike so many of us

Polonius would still have had something inane to say

and from behind the curtain
he would have said it
out loud

No one
smells a rat anymore
because we invite
our lurkers

secure in the knowledge
that no one will lug our guts
to the neighbor room
for having heard too much

There is no longer
too much
Ophelia would have announced her imminent drowning
Laertes would have Googled
to learn the proper venom for his sword
and the melancholy Dane
would have heard it all ahead of time
right down to the last sweaty detail
thus decanting
an even more potent poison
into the porches of his own ears