Jake's Flea Market

i wish he’d taken that to hamlet   
or to claudius

he’d brought them his dreams   
that woke him from his drowse nodded watch

there was something of young hamlet’s father   

marcellus dreamt 
the king from an afterlife claimed
orestes had come to denmark   

he declared an apparition 
wandered the house of his sleep
through the hallways of imagination

an apparition   dead voiced   that told him 
amaziah had come

hamlet teased   claudius raged   
that while the owl eyed guards were sleep blinded
the castle with rats was infested 

in the morning marcellus brought 
his nightmare to my chamber