Cursed Ghost

The actor who played Duncan was startled awake on this stage. It’s haunted now.

Who smiles and skips on stage, I think, today,
Makes light of this sad spooky Shakespeare play;
It’s not too old to curse you; I know, see-
-this Scottish Play- as it has sure done me.

I met my none too early kind of death
By screaming out that shipwrecked name, “Macbeth!”
Though I was near to ninety, weary, then,
The spell has slipped up several stronger men.

Portraying Duncan, over eighty-nine,
I slept on stage, I promise, just one time,
And when our fellow actor jostled me,
I tried to improv out, “Macbeth it be!”

His name was Hal O’Brian, not Macbeth;
he mourned me startling to a depth of death,
that sweetheart who woke sleeping, weak-heart me.
I’m floating here to clap eternally.


https://www.rsc.org.uk/macbeth/about-the-play/the-scottish-play

Written for a daily contest:

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Today’s prompt was to write about the curse of the Scottish Play (Macbeth), and to use iambic pentameter if entering a poem.