Future Fight: Families are the most basic Tribe

[Ted Mark]

Families are the most basic Tribe

(I wrote this piece for the artist jet zig
who was considering a post apocalyptic piece.)

Imagine a few months after a World War
when suburban families must fight
day and night
over canned food and bottled water

Imagine the Nuclear Family of the Cold War 1950s apocalypse
had been replaced by an incestuous Family Wolfpack
in the 21st Century after Global Eco-War

a family that forages and fights
as if taken possession by the ghost of Sawney Bean *

Grandmother and grandfather
Mother and Father
teens and kids
feral son feral daughters
a feral tribe who all fight together

going into battle to the death with another
Tribe of
Grandmother and grandfather
Mother and Father
teens and kids
feral son and feral daughter

males verse females
males verse males
females verses females
they pair off to fight
in each fight to the death
one dies - one prevails.

then they pair off again
until one Tribe is
put to an End.

all fight
teeth and fists and weapons of glass and metal
none are spared the fate of the loser

perhaps they even barbecue the dead
making love shamelessly without discrimination
until they sleep
satiated on blood and on meat well fed.

who are we
Predator or Prey?
Let my Tribe
shed blood Today!


Rudrah


* Sawney Bean :
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean[/ame]

He left home with a vicious woman who apparently shared his inclinations. The couple ended up at a coastal cave in Bannane Head, near Galloway (now South Ayrshire) where they lived undiscovered for some twenty-five years. (The cave was 200 yards deep and during high tide the entrance was blocked by water, and is said to be today's Bennane Cave, located between Girvan and Ballantrae in Ayrshire).

Their many children and grandchildren were products of incest and lawlessness. The brood came to include eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons and fourteen granddaughters. Lacking the gumption for honest labour, the clan thrived by laying careful ambushes at night to rob and murder individuals or small groups. The bodies were brought back to the cave where they were dismembered and cannibalised. Leftovers were pickled, and discarded body parts would sometimes wash up on nearby beaches.

The body parts and disappearances did not go unnoticed by the local villagers, but the Beans stayed in the caves by day and took their victims at night. The clan was so secretive that the villagers were not aware of the forty eight murderers living nearby.

In a frenetic quest for justice, the towns people lynched several innocents, and the disappearances continued. Suspicion often fell on local innkeepers since they were the last to see many of the missing people alive.

One fateful night, the Beans ambushed a married couple riding from a fair on one horse, but the man proved a tough opponent, deftly holding off the clan with sword and pistol. Unfortunately, they fatally mauled the wife when she fell to the ground in the conflict. Before they could take the resilient husband, a large group of fairgoers appeared on the trail and the Beans fled.

With the Beans' existence finally revealed to the world, it was not long before King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) heard of the atrocities and decided to lead a manhunt with a team of four hundred men and several bloodhounds, soon finding the Beans' cave in Bannane Head. The cave was rife with human remains, having been the scene of a thousand plus murders and cannibalistic acts.

The clan was captured alive and taken in chains to the Tolbooth Jail in Edinburgh, then transferred to Leith or Glasgow where they were promptly executed without trial; the men had their genitalia cut off, hands and feet severed and were allowed to bleed to death, and the women and children, after watching the men die, were burned alive. (This recalls, in essence if not in detail, the punishments of hanging, drawing and quartering decreed for men convicted of treason while women convicted of the same were burned. Presumably?whether or not the story had an actual basis?cannibalism was considered the equivalent of treason.)

The town of Girvan, located near the crime scene, has another legend about the cannibal clan. It is said that one of Bean's daughters eventually left the clan and settled in Girvan, where she planted the Hairy Tree. After her family's capture, the daughter's identity was revealed by angry locals who hanged her from the bough of the Hairy Tree,...but not before giving birth to twins who were taken by a rogue Bishop out of the country.

PS: He was the inspiration, in part, for Sweenie Todd, the Best Picture of 2007

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[johnsmith2007]

Iloved the poem on future 'barbarism' and the idea of the fighting families, and the Wiki is real!?!?
John