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“Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem  none!” -- William Shakespeare Though thematically timeless and unforgettable in style and execution, the plays of William  Shakespeare aren’t entirely to his credit. But while it’s true that he drew inspiration  from previously existing tales and texts, and often modeled his plays after Roman  tragedies, there's no denying the fact that he put a decidedly secular stamp on whatever  source/structure he appropriated. Nowhere is his creative licensing more true to worldly  form than in his 1603 tragedy, Othello: The Moor of Venice . Tapping the Medieval morality  play a la Everyman and Mankind , Shakespeare drops notions of envy, jealousy, and  mercy into a 17th Century Italian Navy . Unlike the  Medieval tradition, however, Shakespeare offers no moral resolution for his characters . What he does do is put a chilling new spin on dramatic conventions...

mother at the bottom of the sea   mother of god where have you gone sea faring barnacled corpse black fizzing madonna let me glide beside you once more along the shimmering sea floor let me chew through the charred grizzle of what remains there where i tossed you in that january mother of god i hardly knew ye but to be an unfaithful friend obsidian heart bubbling with the rage they pumped into you when you were four don't punish me for your rape! mother of god you are the cold hand that holds me the exquisite ghost that haunts me the shotgun that blasted me from a punctured chrysalis whilst i dangled there  helplessly by your venomous cord tangled in the  blubbery sinews  of your  amorphous abortions mother of god you of all people should know of my plight of innocence bludgeoned in the night O! if i could swim down to meet you at the bottom of the sea like a fish  i'd drink you in supernal milk ...