'Hang The Dogs, Poem by carlos Ac libera

'Hang the dogs,

'Hang the dogs,
that the horse's hooves\...
repeatedly struck their faces,
awakened from their drunken sleep,

whose landlady had two smuggler sons,
brandy and two tons
of tea wrapped in oilskin,
in a cocky, post-heist mood...

Death by a bullet was too slight,
knelt down to pray,
knelt down to pray,
their bodies hung in chains and left to rot
in the open sky

smugglers stored bags of tea
horses with their legs tied
under the horse's belly hide,
'Hang the dogs, ' the smugglers' wives
said... 'Hang the dogs

'They came here to hang us.'
and suspicious of the strangers...rules,
whose brutality and sadism shook
all that black empire