| After
lashing me for a while, first my back,
then my chest, and after turning me around,
he placed me down on the floor and fastened
my hands to a cross bar. It was going
to be my first Roman crucifixion, he said,
...with a twist.
I was on the floor
of the attic, my body raising up in pain
while he shot some images, he said I looked
great and as he shot the video he told
me my story.
I was a rebel princess
from Britannia (why not a Gaelic princess,
I asked myself) captured by the Romans
after I led a rebellion. Taken to rome
I was tried in public and condemned to
death, as the worst criminal. My crime,
rebelling against the empire (Emperors
don't like rebels)
Taken in front
of the crowds I was whipped until my rags
were torn off my body.
(He said that
it was the first part of the home video
we were making, when he lashed me so much,
my breasts still hurt..) |