Commandment III

Commandment III

 

*“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh

his name in vain.”

 

the chair of that character called

“judas”

made of dark oak

bearing 1,500 iron spikes

covering the

arm-rests, the seat, as well as the

leg-rests, foot-rests & back of the chair---

razor-sharp & ground fine---

honed to

rip &

slash &

tear, lacerate, fray &

gash

the

flesh---

the good believer would hold down the

wrists, tying them down with leather straps

&

rusting metal bars across the torso to press the body

back into the piercing

spikes

while underneath the chair

beneath the hole carved in the seat

lies a hearth of seething hot coals

whose flames rising up

burn the muscles of the thighs.

 

the penetrated wounds were closed off by the

spikes themselves and in doing so

the torturous death could be prolonged

for days.

 

 

*The work of fiction called “The Bible”