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# Charles and Mary Lamb
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/charles-and-mary-lamb/
- Published: 2023-05-15T21:31:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T18:38:14.000Z
- Author: Emily Bowles
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*By Emily Bowles*

Remember when they   
dismembered—that is to say,   
remembered, differently,   
Shakespeare’s stories?

Morally didactic   
rewritings,   
Victorian   
revisings,   
cognitive   
rewirings,

no happy endings   
(even to comedies)?

Remember when they   
made us allegorically   
believe there was is   
meaning?

Why not   
not  
for me,

when I have these dreams,   
Andronicus reckonings,   
and Coriolanus tearing flies   
apart  
at the seams,  
& how it seems  
as if we have our own way of wings?

These Lambs lull us with lullabies not  
fit for sheep counting, ewe know,  
darkling, what it is to sleep without a dream.