I laughed out loud when I read this poem. Anyone who had read Hamlet might see the humor in that tv listing; but who except Sam Gwynn could make reading it the occasion for such an apt and funny poem? (So often my response to his poems is an admiring and envious, "Now why didn't I think of that?") It's the sort of thing he is best at: drawing on both canonical literary sources and pop cultural ones in his poems. Another example is the brilliant and fiercely satiric "Among Philistines," which gives the story of Samson a contemporary setting.
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