Spikes tear thru my skin
pierce my sides and I hang
dripping blood like rain.
People avert their eyes,
others grab sharpened rebar,
and my pain echoes like thunder.
A person stands near me.
they yell about rights,
but others sneer and mock,
as the laws seethe and grow
to accommodate more spikes,
more needles to eviscerate
my mind, brain, and body
until I am an empty husk,
then and only then,
is their bloodlust sated.


