Decapitato

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."