11 2017 Shylock\t\t<\/p>\n
Shylock
\nby Paul Robert Sanford<\/p>\n
What am I to you?
\nA Villain? A Joke? A Victim?<\/p>\n
Some Christian wrote me
\nwith a big nose and greedy palm,
\nburning for vengeance on those who have wronged me.
\nHe got part of it right.<\/p>\n
I am a human being with feelings and needs.
\nAll of us need respect and security.
\nHow dare you push me to the side of the street,
\nspit on my robes,
\nborrow money from me but hide me away in the ghetto.
\nForce me out of every honest trade into money lending
\nthen curse me for a money grubbing greedy monster.<\/p>\n
Laugh at me for a while.
\nYes, I get the boot, I get cheated.
\nI let my the carry me away,
\nto think I would ever get Justice
\nfrom these Christians.
\nThe fix was in from the first and I fooled myself.<\/p>\n
One of these days my descendants will revenge me.
\nWe will work and study until we succeed beyond your kind.
\nOur lives will be prosperous and secure,
\nat least compared to this medieval age.
\nBut we will still be driven by the memories
\nof cheatings and beatings, of pogroms and forced labor.<\/p>\n
Never again will we let the world walk all over us.
\nYou have wronged us, and none of us will every be allowed to forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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