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