falling off a tall building and
splattering on the pavement?
thrown bound and gagged
into a pit of poisonous spiders?
thrown bound and gagged
into a pit of poisonous snakes?
your life ended in the slow horrifying
grip of a giant python?
beaten senseless and thrown off a cruise ship
at night in shark infested water?
being slowly cut to death by a razor?
bound and burned out of this life in a raging fire?
devoured to death by starving hogs?
tied up and tossed into a pool
of bloodthirsty razor-toothed piranhas?
snatched off a shoreline by an alligator
and eaten chomp by chomp by it?
mauled to death by ferocious dogs?
savaged to death by hungry lions?
pray you don’t expire in any of these ways,
but if you had to, which one would you choose?
bob boyd
