Necklaces

crime begets crime

inhumanity
seethes
towards
hapless
victim

petty theft

begets
stoning
begets
forced
petroleum
ingestion
begets
confinement
within
rubberised
tread
begets
ignition
of flaming
anger
begets
seething
mass
begets
inhumanity
pointing
laughing
dancing
encircling

petty thief
roasted
alive

 

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Born in the Purple

conjugal rights,

the great leveller,

negated when

purple-robed prince

swore allegiance

to his wife

and queen who,

resplendent in the

Robe of Purple Velvet,

forevermore  walks

t

   w

       o

            paces

                 ahead
of him.

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