Commandment IV

Commandment IV

 

*“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

 

in the 16^th century

erected vertically

standing unstoppable

7

feet

tall

&

upright, in the face of the accused

you walk towards it

stripped naked

& defenseless

while the good believer

takes your shackled self

dragging you

then tying you inside

against your screams

against your hopes that this will not

happen

smiling with rotten filthy teeth gleaming back at you

a shudder kicks up your spine

your body twitches from the cold

you feel you might vomit

when you see the first door of the large metal & wood coffin

coming towards your eyes

you close them as tight as you can

but what good will that do?

according to them

you have

“sinned”

&

now you will

suffer the consequences.

 

and the acicular spikes puncture at first

all around your vitals

but carefully placed so as to not give you

a speedy death

your first high-pitched shout

certainly comes from with the deepest regiment

of your being

followed by whimpers

moans

cries

as you piss yourself

and defecate all over

vomit streaming down your torso

beginning to bleed

as the spikes penetrate straight through to the other side

now nestled in the back of

the virgin of nuremburg

& with the first door close

your eyes flutter with

lightening pain

tears streaming

and the good believer

slams the second door shut

directly thereafter.

 

you

can

see

nothing

you

can

hear

nothing

& with your whole self now flooded with the most physical &

psychological pain that you ever could imagine

know that the spikes have filled the wounds

so that

many

hours

away

from

now

maybe even many days away from now

you will be

blessed

by the good charitable god

of the sweet and decent

believers

a

death

that

you

asked

for.   

 

*The work of fiction called “The Bible”