Royal Slave

So he called him, and he came in

She herself publicly confessed it

“I did so and I do so”

Mr. Would-be king

Houses, Land and Money

the history of this Royal Slave

skins of prodigious snakes

extreme, modest and bashful, very shy,

diet of bread and water

“Look what this a*s is doing! Curse the beast,

you are not coming on board”

Those who want slaves, or Fellow-Citizens of the deep

Rising and Roman

African and flat

Such ill morals are only practis’d

In christian countries

An eternal idea in his mind

He was therefore no sooner got into his apartment

Those burdens where no illusion,

Perceptive faculties at least,

Deluded into imagining himself a beast

To understand a thing, is to

suffer something 

Author's Note

Found poem using excerpts from the Malleus Malificarum, a witch-hunting manual from the 1400s, some from the Apocrypha of Tobias and from Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko

Reviews

[Mayank]

"To understand a thing, is to
suffer something" totally knocked off reading this, plus also it tells a great tale about the inequalities in society.

[Frontier]

thank you Mayank :)

[Chris]

This was a bit hard to follow for me - the crowding font and the feeling I had of disjointed and incomplete thoughts...

[Frontier]

Thanks for the input...after reading this again yea I can see how its not coherent.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, only in christian countries...maybe that is the beast...and all done in the name of God.

[Frontier]

Indeed it may be, Jacob. Thank you.

[Justin]

that was really good :) :) :) it tells a great story :)

[Frontier]

Thanks Justin!

[Justin]

your welcome, i really liked it :)