domingo, 27 de octubre de 2013

Five Ways to Kill a Man


There are many cumbersome
ways to kill a man.
You can make him carry a plank
of wood
to the top of a hill and nail him to
it.
To do this properly you require a
crowd of people
wearing sandals, a cock that
crows, a cloak
to dissect, a sponge, some
vinegar and one
man to hammer the nails home.

Or you can take a length of steel,
shaped and chased in a traditional
way,
and attempt to pierce the metal
cage he wears.
But for this you need white
horses,
English trees, men with bows and
arrows,
at least two flags, a prince, and a
castle to hold your banquet in.

Dispensing with nobility, you
may, if the wind
allows, blow gas at him. But then
you need
a mile of mud sliced through
with ditches,
not to mention black boots, bomb
craters,
more mud, a plague of rats, a
dozen songs
and some round hats made of
steel.

In an age of aeroplanes, you may
fly
miles above your victim and
dispose of him by
pressing one small switch. All
you then
require is an ocean to separate
you, two
systems of government, a
nation's scientists,
several factories, a psychopath
and
land that no-one needs for
several years.

These are, as I began,
cumbersome ways to kill a man.
Simpler, direct, and much more
neat is to see
that he is living somewhere in
the middle
of the twentieth century, and
leave him there.
- Edwin Brock

6 comentarios:

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