Shakespeare On Balloon Boy

Me Think The Sheriff Doth Protest Too Much, Nation Wants Pound Of Flesh

By Robert Weller

How would ShakespeareShakespeare handle the Balloon Boy case.

Perhaps like this. (Apologies to the Bard)

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“I come not to praise the Balloon Boy, but to bury him.

“The evil that men does lives after them.

“The good is interred with their bones.”

Now you might argue that it is Richard Heene, the father,

Should bear the Brunt.

Yet I recall, “You did all love him once, not without cause.”

Not once but twice he appeared with his fair wife, Mayumi on Wife Swap.

Was it a hoax. Perhaps Yeah.

Thus spake Richard to Falcon before the launch:

“I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.

“Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;

“Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;

“Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,

“Put not another sin upon my head.”

Facing a mad assault from the king’s sheriff

And his media lackeys, where can a poor family go?

“If by your art, my dearest father, you have

Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them,” cried Falcon.

And who the hell is Wolf.

“In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:

“It wearies me; you say it wearies you;

“But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,

“What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,

“I am to learn;

“And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,

“That I have much ado to know myself.”

Me thinks it is time to stop talking about this affair,

“For brevity is the soul of wit.”

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