Reflections On Shakespeare Poem by Richard Wlodarski

Ah! Your father gets paid to drink beer
And is it true that you poached some deer?

You and your wife don't sleep in same bed
You bequeath her your 'second best' bed

You only went to grammar school
Some believe you were quite a fool

Your parents never learned to read or write
And your children weren't really all that bright

You were an 'upstart crow' who flew away
To your biographers' total dismay

What did you do those seven years
After fleeing for poaching deer?

Did you work as a schoolteacher?
Passing through Stratford as actor?
Did you study law
To stay above law?

Seven lost years
Left some in tears