“Time to saw,” the kobolds said, and moved
to lay the first fleshly plank upon
their contraption—and era ‘pon era,
as man’s demand dictates, so their
product varies. Feet, and portions
of head for the sect of Procrusteans,
classical hospitallers.
Later, Crusaders enlisted these elves
to jig Saracens into pious shapes,
to edify all enquiring countrymen.
Of late, our doctors contract with these
sawyers, and mail co-signed cadavers—
returned divided in some thousand many
of grisly one-ply sheets.
-2005
