It’s the year 1875 in the western part of Missouri
Sam farms the land with his wife and children and is extremely happy
He is glad the war is over and his service is done
He now cherishes every minute he can spend with his son
BOOM! A rifle cracks the silence of the middle of the night
There is a group of men looking for a fight
Sam’s barn is on fire, his livestock has been slain
His son screams out in blood curdling pain
Sam screams out in anger and rushes out to save his child
He runs as fast as wolf in the wild
He sees the men and he runs faster, he must save the day
The world goes black and Sam is awoken tied up laying in the hay
Tears stream down his face, anger swells his vocal cords
He chokes out these few words
“Why lord why!” He then sees the leader grinning
Holding Sam’s son as he is slowly dying
The leader speaks “I am here to collect on the sins of your past
You know these good times could not last
You may have changed but you cannot erase your evil deeds
You are worse than the excrement of a farmers steeds.”
The leader pulls out a Union army saber and buries the point into Sam’s shoulder
He twists the saber and every time Sam shouts in pain he burst out in laughter
Sam asks, “what crimes do you condemn me for?”
The leader says, “I use this saber to settle an old score.”
Sam passes out from the immense pain
He drifts back into a suppressed memory locked in his brain
The year is 1861 and Sam is on a plantation in Georgia
He just witnessed a union soldier and his slave murder his momma
That day was the first day of Sam the butcher
He pulled a butcher’s knife from the kitchen and plunges it into the throat of the slave and the soldier
For the next four years Sam slaughters every black person he sees
He doesn’t kill the soldiers he just chops of their legs right below their knees
He tells himself he does it for the confederacy
Fighting for a flag gives his killing some legitimacy
He kills so many that he has lost count, he kills all including women and children
He always makes sure he kills them first then he kills the watching men
When the war stops he has to stop, he has no more protection
He has to leave the south because he has such a terrible reputation
He uses the money he has stolen from all the soldiers to buy his farm
He woos his wife with his unnatural charm
A sharp pain rushes through Sam’s leg as his leg is separated from his knee
He is back from the comfort of his suppressed memory
Sam asks if he has killed the leader’s family
The leader doesn’t answer he just chops off Sam’s other knee
The pain is immense and Sam begs for his own death
He begs to the leader to make these his last breaths
The leader just spits on Sam and mounts his horse
The group of men ride away to let Sam’s death take a natural course
Sam lays on the hay crying and bleeding when he hears a sweet sound
It is the voice of his mother, she kneels beside him on the ground
She whispers to Sam, “violence does not solve violence
You needed not kill for me, so consider your pain today as penitence.”
This was the last thought Sam had on this planet
He went out the way he sent so many out of it
So take this tale as a cautionary notice
Not all crimes are handled by the police
Anger, Angst, and Anything America Allows 