"Let him be drug on a plank at a horse’s tail to the place of execution, and there be suspended by one foot to the gallows, and be left there until he is dead. As long as he lives let him be given food and drink.” -a Milan decree from 1393 for the punishment of traitors and the original basis for the image of The Hanged Man tarot card.
science partner the toughs, they strung him up by the ankles between goalposts swinging, all there, joe’s gang hangers on, to drag taunt kick jab jeer swill he was one himself my brother thirteen & a little too smart for his own ass a little too what? for his own right & it would’ve gone on to who knows why but for primo tough jean jacket acne paul adair who stepped up & in said cut him down a three word hero for nothing other than I was his partner in science 'cause perched atop stools we were junior high made, one to guide the other say to mix in a tube pairs of organic compounds, to hold solutions in vials over a blue flame for as long as it takes, or say to slit the belly of a frog splayed & pinned upon the table so as to see what's inside
Wow! This feels very personal. So what did you find inside?
The antics of kids
youth that kicks
Open some wounds
Closes some doors
Hanging on hinges
Blown away cringes
Chem labs clouds
Clear the scene
Kids are kids
Just this once