*william Shakespeare The Haiku Poet Poem by john tiong chunghoo

the world's a stage
for the men and women
exits and entrances

the infant
mewling and puking
in the nurse's arms

... the whinning schoolboy
creep like snail
unwilling to school

the lover
sighing a furnace of ballad
to his loving mistress

a soldier
full of strange oaths and
bearded like the pard

the justice
in fair round belly
with good capon lined

the sixth age shifts
in the lean and slippered
pantaloon

his youthful nose
shrunk shank, his big manly voice
a childish treble

last scebe
a second childishness
sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything.