Saturday, November 5, 2011

Facts are more beautiful (I feel less guilty?) as poems

In the thirteenth century
it was customary
to be quartered
when convicted of high treason.

Hanged, until death was near certain
and then, each limb
bound to the tethers of a horse
were
at once, pulled apart
with the crack of a whip.

“Although, for decency purposes
women were burned at the stake.”

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