NOOSE
OF TYRANNY
I
am your shame, your broken record.
Whitlow germinating, in your slime -
When a man's love for his fatherland
Blows up in his face.
I grow up, a weed, another town.
Tasting a new polity,
With head crushing taxation.
I lose my mind, as an execution
Of a new bye law.
Whitlow germinating, in your slime -
When a man's love for his fatherland
Blows up in his face.
I grow up, a weed, another town.
Tasting a new polity,
With head crushing taxation.
I lose my mind, as an execution
Of a new bye law.
El Ahorcado [The Hanged]-- Julio Ruelas
A whitlow or felon is an infection of the tip of the finger. "Whitlow" is derived from the Scandinavian whickflaw, which combined a variant of "quick" (a sensitive spot) with "flaw." "Felon" is Old French, derived from the Latin root "fel-," ("bile") and referred to the toxic content of the abscess.
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