STANFORD HAMLET AND THE GHOST OF GERRY

Longtime and careful readers of the blog know we often find comfort and succor in the Bard, especially in times of trouble.

We therefore take some liberties with Hamlet and his Father’s Ghost, in a final speculation of the removal nee/ resignation of Judge Gerry Klein.

Tortured by the “resignation” of Judge Gerry Klein, our Hero “Stanford Hamlet” dangles near the edge of madness. The scene below, he confronts the Ghost of Judge Klein:

SCENE V.

Enter GHOST and STANFORD HAMLET

GHOST OF GERRY KLEIN

My hour is almost come,
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself.

STANFORD HAMLET
Alas, poor ghost and Senior Judge!

GHOST OF GERRY KLEIN
Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearingTo what I shall unfold.

STANFORD HAMLET
Speak; I am bound to hear.

GHOST OF GERRY KLEIN
I am Judge Gerry Klein’s spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the golf courses of Miami Beach
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.

STANFORD HAMLET
O My!

GHOST OF GERRY KLEIN
Revenge my foul and most unnatural resignation.

HAMLET
Resignation!

GHOST OF GERRY KLEIN
Resignation most foul, as in the best it is;
But this most foul, strange and unnatural resignation.

Now, Stanford, hear:
A serpent named Rundle so stung me; so the whole ear of Miami is by a forged process of my resignation.
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youthful administrative Judge:
The serpent that did sting thy Senior Judge’s Job
Now wears the crown of State Attorney.

STANFORD HAMLET
O my prophetic soul! My Aunt Kathy!!!

GHOST OF GERRY KLEIN
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
With witchcraft of her wit, with traitorous gifts,--

O Stanford, what a falling-off was there!
From me, whose love was of the Bench
Thus was I, Judging ,
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,Unhousel'd, disappointed, ungaveled
No reckoning made, but sent to resign
With all my imperfections on my head:

Let not the royal bench of Miami be A couch for luxury and damned credit time served.

But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy State Attorney aught:
leave her to heaven or the bar or the voters.
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

Fare thee well at once!
Adieu, adieu! Stanford Hamlet, remember me.
Remember me Your Judge Klein
(Exit)

STANFORD HAMLET
Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost and disgraced Senior Judge
while memory holds a seat In this distracted adminstrative Judge's chambers.

O most pernicious woman!

O villain, villain, State Attorney smiling, damned villain!
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;

At least I'm sure it may be so in Miami.
That villainous Woman did not tarry
And sent away our beloved Fast Gerry.


And in final thought about Judge Klein, we directly quote the Bard:


HORATIO
I saw him once; he was a goodly king.

HAMLET
He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.


Gerry Klein was one of a kind and we shall not look upon his like again.

See You In Court.