"One Night in Bangkok and the World's Your Oyster"...poetry for c/c?

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"tell me, bernal, why should kill these aztecs.
believe in gods. not christ,
believe in higher being."
"cortes, father not allow belief in other
gods."
"but if all-loving, all-powerful, wouldn't
1 believe in?"
"there difference, cortes. watch
say. cannot protect torquemada."
"ah, jeweled peacock. how many has
murdered year, in christ's name?"
"they go heaven, cortes. saved."
"but not before flesh melts flame, eh?"
"cortes, leave line of thought alone.
aztecs heathens must saved."

"by killing them, bernal?"


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. "tell me, bernal, why should kill these aztecs. believe in gods. not christ, believe in higher being." "cortes, father not allow belief in other gods." "but if all-loving, all-powerful, wouldn't 1 believe...

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