1
It is favorable
To let justice be administered
Terrible and swift.
2
Let it come down
Like thunder and blue lightning:
The old surprise visit,
An image of
Biting
Through.
3
Thus the old kings made iron laws
With exponential penalties.
If the punishment fits the crime,
Is it a punishment at all?
Ask Hammurabi, Gaius,
Simon Legree, and Draco.
4
His feet are fastened in the stocks,
So his toes disappear.
He dines on putrid meat.
His neck is fastened in a wooden cangue,
So his ears disappear.
This is as good as it gets.
5
The guilty swerve
From pleading for life
To pleading for death.
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