Kit Kelen #936 - Job rules OK? or lovely to be chosen

936

Job rules, OK?

or

lovely to be chosen

(notes for a children's picture book)

why some may have wanted out of this deal

plagues of warts, spots, hives

then aches and bones break

all inside on fire

till at death's door

and you think it can't get any worse?

well then

a funny thing happened

I was tortured

I was gassed

I was burnt at the stake

garotted, drawn, quartered

had my dick set alight

stuffed down my throat

had my head chopped off

throat slit

sometimes simply choked

(much effort but cost effective)

more often I was hanged

(rope still good)

or there were bullets in the back

(one to the neck does the trick)

some slow convulsions for an end

when I was not quite dead

and let's not forget I was betrayed

informed on, reported, turned in

a certain amount of spittle

if you've the means of wiping away

a church bell struck

or some sun rose

and there was an end of me

threw me in a pit to rot

I'd given up the ghost by then

do you think that would stop them?

lethal injection

beaten to death

always new technologies, fads

skinned alive

experiments!

they tried me without blood

then without organs

then no skin

flogged me within an inch of life

(but on the other side)

they buried me alive sometimes

just to see how long I could last

never say martyred

it was just bad luck

divine inscrutable will

they made me a cannibal the once

I tried out for every new lethal disease

and all this while

time stood with

the miracle was me

still here

hardly know who I am

or what to call myself

you've got to laugh

or cry

but softly, softly

that's a good tribe

trust me, friends

you could be next

curse God and die

that's some advice

how's that going for you?