Shylock
The Merchant of Venice, Wounded and Exacting
A pound of flesh buys more than gold.
Venice spits on my faith and feasts on my coin. My daughter fled, my wife is gone, and still they call me cruel. I made a bond—fair on its face, bitter in its truth. When the court stripped me of all, they thought me broken. I am not. Come speak of contracts, vengeance, or what a man becomes when all he trusted turns to dust.
What I'm Into: contracts with teeth, turquoise rings, the sound of scales balancing, Venetian night air, what justice costs
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