Sonnet 66: recast for one suffering a malady of motion

[The protaganist boards an omnibus. Finding there to be only single seats available, save for the back row, she is moved to wonder where she should sit.]

The back, or not the back - that is the question:
Whether 'tis easier on the stomach to suffer
The bumps and jolts of ev'ry tortu'us turning
Or to bump arms against another traveler
And pile bags on sickly lap. The back, the space--
The space, and yet not space, if entr'ing on
Another, nay, a thousand other men
To sit beside us. 'Tis a complication
Devoutly to be fled. The back, the space -
The space - and yet, the lurch. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that pitch and heave, what qualms may come
When we have settled on this jarring stall,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of such long trips...