Was Shakespeare Someone Else?

True or False? Shakespeare was someone else.

Some think the likeliest candidate was Bacon.
OK, I’m saying: False.

If there's one thing with which we shouldn’t mess,
it's the identity someone has taken.
True or False? Shakespeare was someone else.

There was that snake placed on a breast—its hiss.
There was that crown prince on an isle forsaken.
Nah, forget it: False.

I’ve already started listing women: Beatrice,
Rosalind, Portia; that dragon-
mother, Volumnia; Katherine—whom else?

That very-like-a-whale guy, Polonius;
and Yorik, funny fellow who flung the flagon—
I knew him, Horatio, but I still say: False.

Truly, Shakespeare was no one but themself,
never mind by whom their plays were written.
True or False? Shakespeare was someone else.
Mercutio’s no help!—I still say: False.