Frederick's Experiments

A cockroach's decapitated head lives on for days I'm intrigued and inspired by nature and its ways Experimenting on insects, birds, dogs and rats The subjects die instantly after severing their head In the arts of life man invents nothing But in the arts of death he outdoes nature herself A leg of a dissected spider still contracts This resurrects the idea of an experiment on human legs A limb sawed off and stolen from the local cemetery Contracting muscles quiver through electricity Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Knew exactly what to do with his prisoners Sealed in a wooden barrel with single hole Observing time of death and departing of the soul Two prisoners are invited for dinner at the same time One is sent out hunting, the other ordered to sleep for a while Both men disemboweled, compared with fascinated eyes On the contents of their stomachs and the effects of sleep and exercise Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor A man with a taste for scientific horror The quest for the primal language of mankind An experiment designed by a dark sadistic mind Infants bred to be raised like Adam and Eve To be bathed and fed by mutes, words never spoken All their lives concealed from love, care and speech Psychotic savages all ending up broken