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zebra Aug 2016
on the first date
she confided in me
i have a chromosomal disorder, disorder, disorder
i need love and pain strangely mixed together
my elixirs
i suffer reality distoooorrtions
a ghastly Vatican of ****** compulsions
my soul is black matter
my **** a seething cauldron of despicable desire
my *** cries for homicidal cruelty

mold me into a *******
fold me like a two dollar beach chair
the wrong way
tear me to bits
unwind my intestine
eat me like a blood ******* ghoul
make me squirm like an anime victim

i thought oh finally a soul mate
with soul

strange as a Dionysian mad hatter on hallucinogenics
hot girl creeping
grimacing at me
meandering conjurations by ****** contortions
stunning impersonations of a Fellini impaling
shes a famous artist
keeps broodish bowels and blood tampons in stainless vitrines
spot lighted
ready for her debut at the
Museum of Modern Art

she blows torrents of snot like ****
her beautiful desperate tongue searching the upper lip
a salty runny viscoses snack
oozy
finding it finally with her frenetic tongue
feeding her gooey ****
with wet fingers
oh yummy yum goo
up her *** too

first smiling then hideous scowls
exposed teeth
posing with a knife
wana see me cut my self bad boy, she taunts
wana see my impersonation of pizza with extra tomato sauce

blood blood *** in the be in the bed
wipe it up with ginger bread

some how she miraculously bulges her eyes out
then performs, ******* lips as if a minnow in a fish jar

pointing to her ***
giving me that **** hurt me twisted look
how about a peanut butter jelly ******* sandwich
with a side of ****** feet
**** and **** on toes
its especially prized this day of the month
as her **** tears like a vampires mouth, a torrent of blood
pouting **** with white red stained thighs that break a mans heart
*** nothing at all she quips
just a little accident
do you like it?
as she glares like an invitation
to play slip and slide bare foot in her puddle of blood

oh she made me *****
my cherry red **** having a nervous breakdown
from apoplectic horror gasms
a dose of heavens hell

i want her
she is voluptuous like a dozen venomous snakes
copulating in warm soup dark water everglades
she is slither theater

curdling screams
then muggling *******
brought on by the first belly stab
falling to her knees
looking up shocked
mouth gaping
eyes wide
grinning
glance steady
holding holding holding
the belly cut
a cacophonous modern dance of agony
followed by rapturous convulsing *******
that went on and on and on

get a bat she implored

she is a real ******* movie star
the Greta Garbo of *****
a dark jewel
a must have
a hell wife
goddess of dread
a ******* *** genius
my best girl ever

fused by desire
we kissed like **** loving catholic priests
in adoration of their savior
young boy *** castrato hitting the high notes


she looked up with desperation
eyes with glittering tears
and said
are you my black knight?
do you know how to hurt a girl
are you my
Vex Mallus
Dr Satan
Marquis De Sick
Nick Nick
Dark Officer
Remus the Werewolf
Dom Sugar Daddy
Pit Bull
Tommy the Tummy Gutter
5 o'clock Shadow
London Cabby
Amputee ******
Uncle Surgery Gone Wrong
King of the Carpathian Vampires
my sweet kissy Kitten

ooohh yes i said
i am all that for loves sake
albeit twisted
i am what you crave.. your no taboo lover boy
your ******* licking foot slave with a razor in hand
a bubble of poison between my legs
your homicidal suicidal cockealiciousness

she said good,
now that we have that settled
can we go out for dinner
ill be dressed in a jiffy
if i can find my dead skirt
of soft white gauze
with that lovely motif of dread red
and my precious toe tag jewelery
My poems remain explorations of the subconscious ******
If i where a film maker or a novelist  you  would see me telling a story, not judge me, although i admit to my paraphilias  
These poems  are lunar anamorphic streams of consciousness from the deep chaotic subterranean glitz of transgressive  impulses we all share
Read them if you dare...You might find that part of yourself that you don't want you to know about and then again  you may feel more complete some how if you do....I always loved that dark thing that sleeps with in me
À Catulle Mendès


La petite marquise Osine est toute belle,

Elle pourrait aller grossir la ribambelle

Des folles de Watteau sous leur chapeau de fleurs

Et de soleil, mais comme on dit, elle aime ailleurs

Parisienne en tout, spirituelle et bonne

Et mauvaise à ne rien redouter de personne,

Avec cet air mi-faux qui fait que l'on vous croit,

C'est un ange fait pour le monde qu'elle voit,

Un ange blond, et même on dit qu'il a des ailes.


Vingt soupirants, brûlés du feu des meilleurs zèles

Avaient en vain quêté leur main à ses seize ans,

Quand le pauvre marquis, quittant ses paysans

Comme il avait quitté son escadron, vint faire

Escale au Jockey ; vous connaissez son affaire

Avec la grosse Emma de qui - l'eussions-nous cru ?

Le bon garçon était absolument féru,

Son désespoir après le départ de la grue,

Le duel avec Gontran, c'est vieux comme la rue ;

Bref il vit la petite un jour dans un salon,

S'en éprit tout d'un coup comme un fou ; même l'on

Dit qu'il en oublia si bien son infidèle

Qu'on le voyait le jour d'ensuite avec Adèle.

Temps et mœurs ! La petite (on sait tout aux Oiseaux)

Connaissait le roman du cher, et jusques aux

Moindres chapitres : elle en conçut de l'estime.

Aussi quand le marquis offrit sa légitime

Et sa main contre sa menotte, elle dit : Oui,

Avec un franc parler d'allégresse inouï.

Les parents, voyant sans horreur ce mariage

(Le marquis était riche et pouvait passer sage)

Signèrent au contrat avec laisser-aller.

Elle qui voyait là quelqu'un à consoler

Ouït la messe dans une ferveur profonde.


Elle le consola deux ans. Deux ans du monde !


Mais tout passe !

Si bien qu'un jour qu'elle attendait

Un autre et que cet autre atrocement tardait,

De dépit la voilà soudain qui s'agenouille

Devant l'image d'une Vierge à la quenouille

Qui se trouvait là, dans cette chambre en garni,

Demandant à Marie, en un trouble infini,

Pardon de son péché si grand, - si cher encore

Bien qu'elle croie au fond du cœur qu'elle l'abhorre.


Comme elle relevait son front d'entre ses mains

Elle vit Jésus-Christ avec les traits humains

Et les habits qu'il a dans les tableaux d'église.

Sévère, il regardait tristement la marquise.

La vision flottait blanche dans un jour bleu

Dont les ondes voilant l'apparence du lieu,

Semblaient envelopper d'une atmosphère élue

Osine qui tremblait d'extase irrésolue

Et qui balbutiait des exclamations.

Des accords assoupis de harpes de Sions

Célestes descendaient et montaient par la chambre

Et des parfums d'encens, de cinnamome et d'ambre

Fluaient, et le parquet retentissait des pas

Mystérieux de pieds que l'on ne voyait pas,

Tandis qu'autour c'était, en cadences soyeuses,

Un grand frémissement d'ailes mystérieuses

La marquise restait à genoux, attendant,

Toute admiration peureuse, cependant.


Et le Sauveur parla :

« Ma fille, le temps passe,

Et ce n'est pas toujours le moment de la grâce.

Profitez de cette heure, ou c'en est fait de vous. »


La vision cessa.

Oui certes, il est doux

Le roman d'un premier amant. L'âme s'essaie,

C'est un jeune coureur à la première haie.

C'est si mignard qu'on croit à peine que c'est mal.

Quelque chose d'étonnamment matutinal.

On sort du mariage habitueux. C'est comme

Qui dirait la lueur aurorale de l'homme

Et les baisers parmi cette fraîche clarté

Sonnent comme des cris d'alouette en été,

Ô le premier amant ! Souvenez-vous, mesdames !

Vagissant et timide élancement des âmes

Vers le fruit défendu qu'un soupir révéla...

Mais le second amant d'une femme, voilà !

On a tout su. La faute est bien délibérée

Et c'est bien un nouvel état que l'on se crée,

Un autre mariage à soi-même avoué.

Plus de retour possible au foyer bafoué.

Le mari, débonnaire ou non, fait bonne garde

Et dissimule mal. Déjà rit et bavarde

Le monde hostile et qui sévirait au besoin.

Ah, que l'aise de l'autre intrigue se fait **** !

Mais aussi cette fois comme on vit ; comme on aime,

Tout le cœur est éclos en une fleur suprême.

Ah, c'est bon ! Et l'on jette à ce feu tout remords,

On ne vit que pour lui, tous autres soins sont morts.

On est à lui, on n'est qu'à lui, c'est pour la vie,

Ce sera pour après la vie, et l'on défie

Les lois humaines et divines, car on est

Folle de corps et d'âme, et l'on ne reconnaît

Plus rien, et l'on ne sait plus rien, sinon qu'on l'aime !


Or cet amant était justement le deuxième

De la marquise, ce qui fait qu'un jour après,

- Ô sans malice et presque avec quelques regrets -

Elle le revoyait pour le revoir encore.

Quant au miracle, comme une odeur s'évapore,

Elle n'y pensa plus bientôt que vaguement.


Un matin, elle était dans son jardin charmant,

Un matin de printemps, un jardin de plaisance.

Les fleurs vraiment semblaient saluer sa présence,

Et frémissaient au vent léger, et s'inclinaient

Et les feuillages, verts tendrement, lui donnaient

L'aubade d'un timide et délicat ramage

Et les petits oiseaux, volant à son passage,

Pépiaient à plaisir dans l'air tout embaumé

Des feuilles, des bourgeons et des gommes de mai.

Elle pensait à lui ; sa vue errait, distraite,

À travers l'ombre jeune et la pompe discrète

D'un grand rosier bercé d'un mouvement câlin,

Quand elle vit Jésus en vêtements de lin

Qui marchait, écartant les branches de l'arbuste

Et la couvait d'un long regard triste. Et le Juste

Pleurait. Et tout en un instant s'évanouit.


Elle se recueillait.

Soudain un petit bruit

Se fit. On lui portait en secret une lettre,

Une lettre de lui, qui lui marquait peut-être

Un rendez-vous.


Elle ne put la déchirer.


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Marquis, pauvre marquis, qu'avez-vous à pleurer

Au chevet de ce lit de blanche mousseline ?

Elle est malade, bien malade.

« Sœur Aline,

A-t-elle un peu dormi ? »

- « Mal, monsieur le marquis. »

Et le marquis pleurait.

« Elle est ainsi depuis

Deux heures, somnolente et calme. Mais que dire

De la nuit ? Ah, monsieur le marquis, quel délire !

Elle vous appelait, vous demandait pardon

Sans cesse, encor, toujours, et tirait le cordon

De sa sonnette. »

Et le marquis frappait sa tête

De ses deux poings et, fou dans sa douleur muette

Marchait à grands pas sourds sur les tapis épais

(Dès qu'elle fut malade, elle n'eut pas de paix

Qu'elle n'eût avoué ses fautes au pauvre homme

Qui pardonna.) La sœur reprit pâle : « Elle eut comme

Un rêve, un rêve affreux. Elle voyait Jésus,

Terrible sur la nue et qui marchait dessus,

Un glaive dans la main droite, et de la main gauche

Qui ramait lentement comme une faux qui fauche,

Écartant sa prière, et passait furieux. »


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Un prêtre, saluant les assistants des yeux,

Entre.

Elle dort.

Ô ses paupières violettes !

Ô ses petites mains qui tremblent maigrelettes !

Ô tout son corps perdu dans les draps étouffants !


Regardez, elle meurt de la mort des enfants.

Et le prêtre anxieux, se penche à son oreille.

Elle s'agite un peu, la voilà qui s'éveille,

Elle voudrait parler, la voilà qui s'endort

Plus pâle.

Et le marquis : « Est-ce déjà la mort ? »

Et le docteur lui prend les deux mains, et sort vite.


On l'enterrait hier matin. Pauvre petite !
Robin Carretti May 2018
So grace me through
my colors
Let's Start

God Grace me

Someone was smart
To raise me
But the blaze
came and love
pursued me
He pushed me
Into his hot blaze

His ***** of fire
A big part of the script
Another lift in his
desire
But my lips
Got raised up
But couldn't.sustain
the fire
The glossy shimmer
Sky hug
He Aint nothing but
a hound dog goodbye
Raised me Orange
Red Robin fly

But how you
face me
Never to
disgrace me

You pick me up with
all my goods
Odds with the bad
Honorable Gods
And so many facets
of my moods
Watch out!!
Starburst

Or a war curse

We  evaporate
In fragments

Orange segments
Sliced and eaten

Love forbidden fruit
One hidden

Embrace the warm solitude

all over your face,
Someone is rude
Fresh Orange
told you
It's Fate

That brought us
together
Orange juicier sun

So many love forms
Whose terms? Just run
This world full of
germs
But to juice things up


How the colors of your
eyes came to an epical stop

But nursed me
orange juice hip hop

He dazed into me
After-life
They named her
Saucy before-life
See ablaze
orange zest
See me and fly me
At my very best

My breast was
so nicely raised


Lips so fruitful
he cannot
resist you know
the rest??

In the mix of orange
things
Pink rings
Butterfly eyes
winged

Was set so privately-----*

The red tail hawk
Was the talk of the 
 Orangey words flowy
Popsicle poppy eye town
No time to refresh
my colors

Free bird orange up
The ramp no lady
and tramps
Just (Gypsies Orange Vamp)
The rocks fall to thump
Trump orange fixtures
Towers Forestal Gump

The soothing smile of lights
He came to you pop features
All over my place
So cultural to the race
The colors of
Orange mellow
oh! no
Here comes yellow----

Creaming into his
creamsicle
Gelato
popsicle
My feeling divided
like politics

Been sliced by
the orange Super bowl
Erotics
Sunny California Kist
Rodeo drive what a
list
Satanic red
Orange Christ
But that orange
She Shh_ sheets
Had the most vibrant
juicy beats
Tomato vines Rome
Lend me your orange
No ears no other
color of tears

Villians of vineyards
Orange bowl of fruit
No Junkyards
The owl started to hoot
Towards the bad apple

My heart was galloping
Shrimp and scallop
Right in my western charm
boot he takes off

Another mix of paint
Orange isn't carrots and
pumpkins
Austin Power Mini-me
Munchkins

Or goblins spooked
Mandarin Orange lovely
Divinely licked
Gingerly lovely Cayenne
Sweet Pepper he looked at her
Lucky 7 Orange ring karat

Whats up Doc
_


Any cracks of his cravat
Orange Key-West lock
Doesn't turn get off
my block
I am going to
Bangkok
With Chuck

Having Orange Tang
He was holding me
777 karat ring
The  Mediterranian
party
Why so dead sea
Pink Smarty
Orange blosson tea
Orange Marquis
Louis and Diamonds
All clockwork
Orange movies

In the lounge of
Raymonds of ring
junkies
Pour OJ for me
**** a doodle doo

Flash of orange came at me
Do you want to?

The operation of heartless
surgery
The Showstopper emergency
Revived refreshing lady
of purity but no orange
The
((Orange Marquis))
Off to see the Wizardly
Orange field gorgeous
WC fields raise

Writer with the
lucky pen praise
Her editor was
the perfect color
ten

Miss coralline with
her coral rock
The mixed infusion

Next color comes up
Raise your brow reaction

Needing a follow-up

Orange rinds
Another call-up
Giddy Apps up
Orange glittering
passion fruit
paintbrush
Soap Opera beauty
and the beast
Another gulp the
pulp pretty in pink
psst
_

Orange-pink tropical
girl orange whirl
The orange-red ringlets
She curled inside him
Glass raise you cup trim
In your villa stucco orange
You were breastfeeding
his orange suited juice

No time to see another
color
Orangey wiz showbiz
Arabian sky sunset
burnt orange
The caramel bump
of the camel
Her favorite one
mural

Lips of tang so foreign
She is flaming like a
flamingo bed

Get his color out of
Cotton picking head
Your shampoo
The
"Orange Oddysey"

Hey, what do you say?

Just open your
eyeshadows
He shadows her in

Or a site for sore eyes got
puffy war of
orange bubbles begin

Feather me
orange wings
The fringe orange
suede
flops
you happy

The A+ diet of fruit
he was the
hotshot
Glass
You're at the
bake me
What do you know
he passed

The spa refreshing
orange peel
mystique

Long lace-lit
Unique
He was coming on too
bossy orangey burst
cheeks were falling
Rise up not down
Orange Julius raise
his price
Fed Ex orange truck
got closer to
Her alluring butterfly
Orange U glad
To catch her
To court her
Fast Orange perfume
She Sha shala
femme
Orange flames came
from his cleft

Still no time for your
spouse whoa he left
_

Now please let me know

what I left out
Orange you glad

this is the only color love
him madly
Orange so vibrant masterpiece the butterfly changes
like a wedding centerpiece
this is my disease
here i am age 6 stealing candy from a shop on Broadway
here i am age 7 pulling a girl’s ******* down around her knees while she’s swinging upside down from jungle gym bars
here i am age 8 Jackie K shows me how to ******* to this day i’ve never looked back
that’s me age 9 creeping into my sister’s bedroom into her sleeping girlfriend’s adjoining bed concerning my sister she’s a great gal but i’ve never been physically attracted to her
this is my disease
here i am age 10 with 4 grammar school buddies shoplifting at Marshal Fields department store we got caught sent home and severely punished
here’s me age 11 erasing and altering test scores in my 6th grade teacher’s grade’s book while class is out to recess
here i am age 12 repressing my true voice and lying to my parents about everything
this is my disease
this is me age 13 being shipped off to boarding school
that’s me age 14 getting kicked out of boarding school then shipped off to another boarding school
there’s me age 15 with Kent stealing girl’s purses from Pink Panther lounge in Rogers Park
here i am age 16 stealing Mom’s sleeping pills trading to score my first heroine fix sick as a dog vomiting by the side of the road
this is my disease
this is me age 17 running away from home to Haight Ashbury CA waking up with ants crawling in my hair strung out on methadrine and acid in Berkley crash house
and there i am age 18 running from tear gas and police Billy clubs in Lincoln Park and rioting in Grant Park at the 1968 Democratic Convention
that’s me age 21 getting tricked by my parents into 3 month lockup at Institute Of Living Hartford CT
this is my disease
there i am age 23 practicing Transcendental Meditation and yoga with Cathleen at Hartford Art School
there’s me age 24 kissing with Cathleen in photo booth at the Century Theater in Chicago
there’s me age 25 working for my Dad while Cathleen is away with her family in Indonesia
there i am age 27 holding a teacher’s certificate from SAIC Mom’s idea i never wanted to discipline kids
that’s me age 30 wearing necktie working at CME and selling coke on the side
that’s me age 32 drunk slurring words telling Elizabeth and her Mom at expensive seafood restaurant i wasn’t fit to marry anyone
this is my disease
here i am age 32 stealing money drugs to support my urges
that’s me age 34 with my first puppy Taters
there’s me age 37 awarded Illinois Arts Council Grant spitting peeing splashing blood on charcoal drawings reading Marquis de Sade dismissing many girls
here i am age 41 exhibiting my first one-man show at Deson Sainders Gallery Chicago Dad dies 6 paintings sold
that’s me age 44 leaving Chicago after too many dropped ***** opportunities chances at love success no destination other than hope prayer of becoming a better person
there i am age 48 burying Taters deep in dirt in Wilmington NC
this is me age 49 working at a record store in Tucson AZ running in the mornings feeling so alone crying
this is me age 50 ******* about **** *** peeing hairy females questioning to myself do any of those fixations actually matter in a real relationship
this is my disease
there i am age 55 living without drugs for more than 10 years swimming every day awarded yoga certification
this is me age 61 without  the affections of a woman for 15 or more years wondering if i’ll ever find love
here i am age 62 returning to Chicago worried about Mom’s illness hoping praying begging for just one more possibility to prove myself
this is my disease
this accounting does not include surviving throat cancer Hepatitis C severe compound fractured wrist and 2 suicide attempts
this is my disease
howard brace Oct 2012
A nervous shiver rippled briefly across his shoulders as Dunstan peered over the balcony, it was a long way down from his penthouse suite he guessed, shrinking back from the handrail... at a rough guess somewhere between the upper observation deck, Eiffel-Tower, Paris, France and lower basement mezzanine at Miss Selfridge, London, England... and Dunstan was terrified if heights.
  
     It scarcely seemed anytime at all really since he'd relocated to his new and upwardly situated des-res, yet for all that he could hardly recall living anywhere else, once you'd seen one, well... you got the idea,  after a while they all looked pretty much the same, you just had to be able to haggle, but for now at least he was obviously safe enough where he was, sunning himself on the balcony watching the world go by as he scribbled down a shopping list... but lunchtime was almost upon him and then all hell was sure to break loose.

     Having finally determined to put down roots and raise children of her own, his mother Elvera, finding herself in the family-way had wasted no time at all in tearing several well thumbed pages out of her mother's book, then taken both Dunstan's father and his gene-pool straight to the cleaners, just to keep them, so page three informed her firmly in the family... so Dunstan grew up knowing a great deal about laundry and dry-cleaning, but very little about his father, just the occasional anecdote cast to the wind like so much bird seed, about their early courting days and how they'd both wanted him to grow into a strong, healthy lad and do well at school, climbing the corporate ladder, so-to-speak and go to Boy-Scouts every Tuesday evening just like his father had done before him... and learn all about knots, but Dunstan had vertigo and couldn't tie knots for toffee.
                                    
     All hell was certainly dead set on breaking loose that lunchtime, or rather Houdini were they to continue and remain on first name terms... and there was nothing Dunstan loved more than a captive audience.   Reflecting deeply and never wanting a repeat of the previous week he studied the hastily bound swaddling, perhaps the odd tweak here and there just to be on the safe side should ensure the safety of his dinner guest for the remainder of the afternoon.   As Dunstan snipped the final thread he considered that simply nothing was too much trouble where todays 'entree was concerned, he now sat before Houdini smacking his lips in anticipation, quivering in the front parlour waiting for the dinner gong to sound, the Sunday lunch however, now in a mounting state of frenzied agitation continued bouncing around on the embroidered tablespread.  

     Dunstan could never understand what the fuss was all about... I mean, it wasn't as though his dinner guest hadn't been invited, he argued and that for the umpteenth time, as he reached for the carving knife and steel, he simply wasn't going to take no for an answer, leaving his dinner guest still bouncing about, insisting that he'd merely dropped in for directions... and that he, The Great Houdini, currently billed at The London Hippodrome for the remainder of the season had a far more pressing dinner engagement elsewhere, with a diary for the foreseeable future distinctly at odds with those of his host... leaving Dunstan so he hoped, far behind and in no uncertain doubt that not only had he been left hanging in stickier corners than this one, but had every intention of extracting himself from being principal dish of the day before third curtain call... and having done so, wish Dunstan a very good day and remit his professional fee by return of post.

    Meanwhile, insisting that his guest needn't feel obliged to dine elsewhere when they could both enjoy a really splendid one right here, chewing over happier times together, although should Houdini wish, then Dunstan felt confident that his dinner guest was more than capable of punching his way out of as many wet paper bags as he liked... and just what were the Marquis of Queensberry Rules anyway... so encouraged, Dunstan continued sharpening the knife. 

     "Well really", thought Dunstan... 'and without so much as a by-your-leave' carefully examining the damage to his new lace tablecloth, torn in Houdini's haste to depart, he really must be careful as he rummaged for his darning needle, not to fall through.  It had been the shortest dinner party in living memory, Dunstan sighed, it simply would not do, what would all his neighbour's think, he'd never hear the last of it, his reputation they would whisper, well... it would all end in ruins, mark their words it would.  Dunstan's tummy rumbled, he'd been filled with nothing but anticipation that day and very little else, but other than a torn tablecloth and superfluous items of Houdini, shrugged of in his bid for freedom, no one would be any the wiser... having said that, Dunstan would have to make do with a cold repast for luncheon instead, hanging quite still in the larder.

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Luis Mdáhuar Sep 2014
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved.
Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections: it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so. These manners of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life; it alleviates all my sufferings in prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world outside; it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness. The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. A traveler journeys along a fine road. It has been strewn with traps. He falls into one. Do you say it is the traveler's fault, or that of the scoundrel who lays the trap? If then, as you tell me are willing to restore my liberty if I am willing to pay for it by the sacrifice of my principles or my tastes, we may bid one another an eternal adieu, for rather than part with those, I would sacrifice a thousand lives and a thousand liberties, if I had them. These principals and these tastes, I am their fanatic adherent; and fanaticism in me is the product of persecutions I have endured from my tyrants. The longer they continue their vexations, the deeper they root my principles in my heart, and I openly declare that no one need talk to me of liberty if it is offered to me only in return for their destruction.

— The End —