And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
From "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes (recommend you go read the whole thing)
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death. For the one path of my flight is direct Through the bones of the living. No arguments assert my right:
Still got chicken legs though.
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Yet even with those legs, he's still the fastest critter on Earth.
DeleteThe real muscles are in the thighs, and they are pulling on talons that will rip you up.
DeleteYeah,
ReplyDeleteI shit on yer head, what ya gonna do about it big boy!
He skipped leg day, those drumsticks are pathetic.
ReplyDeleteNo, man. They're lean! They'll fuck you up.
DeleteFrom "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes (recommend you go read the whole thing)
ReplyDeleteOr fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
Ahnold
ReplyDeleteA chicken that went to prison?
ReplyDeletehee hee
DeleteNow that is truly funny. Thanks.
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