Expo #12.1: Influence & Allusion

Transposed Hamlet
by Kenneth Koch


(HAMLET, wearing avant-garde clothes.)

HAMLET.

  Tube heat, or nog tube heat: data's congestion.
  Ladder tricks snow blur Hindu mine dew sulphur
  Tea slinks end harrows have ow! Cages portion
  Orc tube rake harms hay canst a Z oeuf bubbles
  Ant ply cop posy kingdom.

(He goes crazy.)

Kenneth Koch, "Transposed Hamlet," One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays (1988).