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GLADIATOR NETS





Romans throw coins at gladiators to fight

Entertainment does not come from fast kills

Old gladiators are given freedom for this.



While we slept in the womb, the demiurge

Gave us a taste for death so that we were

Born yelling for a pound of flesh.



Gladiators use the net and the trident

Captivity is the way to select choice meat

Suffering offers up rare delicacies.



Beauty has reached us drenched in blood;

Women’s issue is like Bismarck’s Blood

And iron.  Babies replace the dead of war.



Lions gorge on wildebeest and wolves on

Caribou but we are sad because we can

Never taste enough blood.  How sad we are



Like the spider we are on our way from

Night to night.  The web we weave in Iraq

Is spun by those who make gladiator nets



Neptune and Lord Shiva used a trident.

Perhaps there is a oneness between masters

And slaves and gladiator nets prevent this.