SHAKESPEARE - A Pair of Parodies

About This Writer My book of poetry, AGO and Other Poems was my first effort as a freelance writer, followed by A Citizens Manual For Amending the United States Constitution this is my first attempt at humor. I have always been inquisitive, and a lover of the spoken and written word. Starting at a very, very young age, I was persistently relentless with the numerous questions, and some of them have never been answered. Some were answered, though, in such a way so that even now I can recall time, place, specifics, and the kind, loving hearts that made it so, mostly mentors or teachers. I was taught my letters and numbers before kindergarten, and treasured the first books given to me, Black Beauty and Swiss Family Robinson. As a 10-year old newcomer to Florida (Jacksonville) in 1942, I came upon a building in a local park, and when I entered, what greeted me was a great number of books on many, many shelves. When I asked the lady at the desk whose books they were, she said, ＂Why honey, they are all yours. You can read them here any time you want to, but darlin’, if you want to check them out and take them home, it has to be no more than four at a time.＂ The sweet lady, bless her heart, then gave me my very first library card, which is a person’s most consistently true and faithful ticket to the world. Not only have I loved librarians ever since, it’s likewise the case with words, in whatever form that I find them. At Cape Canaveral during the 1960’s I wrote procedures for Quality Control inspectors and engineers; later at the Kennedy Space Center I wrote maintenance manuals for the government (Corps of Engineers). Then, working as a Technical Writer for Grumman Aerospace on the Apollo Moon Project, I wrote procedures for astronauts for in-flight earth orbital operations on the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module). In the years since, I have worked as a design engineer, a Quality Engineer, a technical writer, and a Quality Assurance Manager. Now I’ve decided to go for it and revisit my long neglected career in freelance writing. I’ve decided to take Mark Twain’s advice: ＂Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.＂ George Enice Lawhon Sunnyvale, California 2013