C u l t u r e Genius, thy name is second draft! By Franklin Cunningham, Historian What you see below is the recently unearthed second draft to what many believe is William Shakespeare’s finest love sonnet – Sonnet XVIII. As you can see, a number of key lines have been revised and deleted; that’s because this second and final draft was written soon after Shakespeare had discovered that Anne, his beloved wife, was having an affair with a nearby miller. (Rumor has it they milled into the wee hours of the night… and then milled some more.) What is absolutely breathtaking about this work is that even in the midst of a lover’s feud the Bard was still able to write with the pen and heart of a poet. Indeed the words seem to leap off the page with all the grace and beauty of a ballerina in a Cadillac. Please enjoy this newfound masterpiece and let the poetry of the Bard move both your heart and soul.