POETRY: American Lynching Phrase Book (excerpt 1)

How would you like to the first; the person knifed; the first person whose ears were then slit?

How would you like to the first bedded, gagged, gowned, bagged, and severely beaten person, claming that you did it to yourself?

How would you like to be the news has been received here of?

How would you like to be the little white anybody, or the wrong gotten hold of by the?

How you like to be mobbed…the guilty one?

How would like to be thereupon...the escapee?

How would you like to be the sheriff and a number of fully armed brave young men?

How would you like to be the cabin at night?

How would you like to handed down…demanded by that boy?

How would you like to be handed over?

How would you like to be a probable fate?

How would you like to be labor?

How would you like to be accounted for, tortured, and then captured?

How would you like to be discharged of their help?

How would like though to have been murdered?

How would you like to be a mutilated body?

How would you like to be the knives by the body’s mutilation?

How would you like to witness the contortions of the body?

How would you like to be extreme agony?

How would you like to be the consensus of an entire state?

How you like to pay the penalty?

How would you like to be a fiendish deed?

How would like to be flamed, and a-flamed, and set a-fire, and burned at the stake?

How would you like to be burned by a pot of boiling water?

How would you like to be burned by the state?