SHYLOCK WRITES TO HIS AUTHOR

Then they came for the merchants

And I was not a merchant,

Except perhaps someone like Hoshang Merchant

And knew that the Merchant of Venice

Was not always selling death

As some of our Shakespears do.

Shylock stood up and said in the court

I will cut off these locks

And just be shy

Or maybe not even that

And I have no spear to shake

In your wake

Except my own, which I do shake.