A short poem emulating Hamlet's soliloquy in Shakespeare's play Hamlet
Note: This is an original piece but it emulates (imitates) Hamlet's soliloquy
To procrastinate, or not to procrastinate, that is the question
Whether it is better for my grade to bear
The pains of missing my favorite TV show
Or to just take the bad test grade
And then fail. To fail-to pass
No more; and by fail to say we end
The missed fun and thousands of lost nights out
That procrastinating is heir to: "tis a thing
Devoutly to be wished. To procrastinate, to wait;
To wait, maybe it will be an easy test-ay, there"s the rub
For in that wait of procrastination, what might the test be like,
When the test comes around, we stop and think, this is why
Everyone else studied for so long.
Who really wants to spend all night studying,
Working on homework, writing essays,
Doing homework, when one could be having fun
By watching TV. Why would someone bother studying
If the test is going to be hard anyway, test one's will to work.
It makes us bear studying in hopes that the test might be
Easier if we spend a few hours studying.
Thus conscience does make us spend hours working,
A thus native hue of laziness is sicklied over with
The pale cast of better judgment and
The want of a better grade
With this thought their will to not work is broken.
