They say a man will blink thirty seconds after being
decapitated.
They say a snake will slither until sundown.
At least I am not at risk
of being beheaded,
I think to myself on this sunny day.
I am not royal enough for that,
when the peasants revolt
I will be among them.
I was reading a book about Mona Lisa
and in the list of ancestors
sometimes it would just be written
"decapitato"
for cause of death.
Dark stuff,
from the time
of "enlightenment."