By The Sword
We killed the carpenter with his nails.
Buried the mason under his crumbled walls.
Choked the bureaucrat with red tape
Wrapped neatly around his lying throat.
We drowned the diver
At the bottom of the cold blue sea.
Stabbed the writer through
With all his pretty pens,
And bled his ink all over the page.
We prescribed the doctor
A good dose of the mortician’s medicine,
Then we took the mortician to the
Undertaker.
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Apr 5 2009
Just curious. How would you kill the lawyer?
Mar 24 2009
We'd just shoot the lawyers in the face. Less messy that way.
Apr 5 2009
Lol as long as the mens rea was involuntary right?
Mar 24 2009
The whose what?
Apr 5 2009
Mens rea means the state of mind. Lol motive basically. The difference between being convicted of manslaughter or homicide. Lol figured if you were gonna shoot em in the face might as well get away with it, armed with, ironically, legal speak.
Apr 5 2009
Oh and shouting "Title 13A-3-24"! doesn't hurt either lol.
Apr 9 2009
I love the first two stanzas, though the third could use some work. I'm not sure why the doctor is prescribed the mortician's medicine. That breaks some of the sequences built in the prior stanzas. I think changing that up a bit will fix the awkwardness I'm feeling for the last line.
Overall, an interesting piece, though I'm unsure as to why we're taking all these people out. Some I could understand, such as the politician, but I'm not sure what crimes the diver was guilty of.
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