Poetic Justice


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Poetic Justice

Confined in ignominious wood;

Diminished by pink-rubbery hood.

Muscles aching; spirit breaking;

The slave in the stocks,

Promises to be good.

But his heartfelt pleas fall on deaf ears;

His guard-master hears only the jeers,

Of the surrounding female melee.

A bright young woman, smears him in mud;

Holds up her shoe, and wipes off the crud,

Onto his forlorn face.

He glimpses her stocking,

And submits to her mocking,

With slavish good grace.

For she has the power,

To harm him and hurt him;

To smite him and bite him,

To beat him and quirt him.

He must bend at her mercy,

And beg for her kindness;

The whilst her shoemud,

Causes him blindness.

And no-one is moved to offer him pity,

Here in the square,

In the heart of the city.

For he must be punished,

This ignorant slave;

This villainous varlet;

This scurvy knave.

And so he pines,

In his oaken snood;

And willow weeps,

As a penitent should.




























Poetic Justice – Mediaeval Style
Perkin_Warbeck_in_the_pillory
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The above image, Perkin Warbeck in the Pillory by Paget, H. M. (Henry Marriott), is free of known copyright restrictions.


Another modern-day slave about to be pilloried in the Gynarchy of Barbaria
About to be Pilloried

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