A vile race of tenacious persons
self-made they inflate themselves on their own
from head to foot and by their clothes and jaws
there are others like a flower who cast
exhalations of humanity’s love.
As there are turtle doves and wild beasts
in the forest, plants that are infested
and sterling carnations in a garden
some have been fed off the soul of mankind
and perfuming their gluttonous teeth
as does the cold iron in the body
of a virgin kill while its heated.
The tyrants are seated at a banquet
and when their blood-stained hands delve in the meal
beaming a light, a martyr re-surges ,
large flowers, as a sudden cross appears,
escape, and reddened mouths are aghast
at the sight of their blackened entrails,
the tyrants, the ones who love themselves most
who in the face of proper reasoning
are an affront to the face of honor,
and the strip of light grown under the yoke
compares to the sun as it casts hot coals
that abound from its breast:
the tyrants do not carry decorous
humanity in sane breasts: they are best,
or second-best at life, with ruined joys,
watched-over wealth and reactionary
“no” to the concierto universal.
Dance, food, music, and harems, but never
approbation of honorable persons
if by chance it could happen without blood
“Get out of the way…hang them hang them
and from the highest noose out on the road
out front in the middle of the village.”
Against humanity’s greatness: traitors
like a worker pounding copper rails,
they divvy up the nation with teeth marks.