"he is not capable of bustling, he hobbles.... he casts away his cane and immediately lurches forward, falling flat on his face"
"bustle (1) 'be active,'mid-14c., frequentative of M.E.,bresten 'to rush, break, from O.E. bersten (see burst)"
Insert your own personal anecdote
Of physical disability here. (Yes,
Norm, a story of a friend or relative
Will do.) One: was King Richard
The Third a moral villain because
Of his physical defect? Or, was
He a defect because of his twisted
Soul? Two: was the young William
Shakespeare an astute toady
Of the Tudor monarchy, casting
An hereditary enemy of Elizabeth
As a monstrous, hump-backed
Toad? Or, was he an artist trapped
In a nascent police state, wriggling
His way to free, remunerative
Expression on the hillocky back
Of his Plantagenet marionette?
Three, does it matter whether real
King Richard was able-bodied and
Or good, albeit ill-served by history?
Four: answer every possible,
Previous question in both
The affirmative and negative, as
You wish. Leave me the world.
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