poem19 Nov 2018 07:34 am
The villagers, unable to tell them apart,
burned our healers and the witch
leaving no one to save us
when the Black Death finally came
Fleas mounted on rats
bent on rape and rapine
crashing through our defenses
like a stone through cathedral glass
Alone on the pyre of my wife and children
I hear their laughter and their cries
their faces surging up through the cold, gray ash
the haunting stench of good meat gone bad
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