So, this one bothered me. CN for rape. I feel like the other monsters in this sequence would disapprove of Tikbalang. I didn’t want to not acknowledge this horrible myth.
We’ve assembled a jury of your peers
Nuckelavee, Kelpie, Centaur, Pegasus
And an equal number of humans and horses.
We’ve tried our best to be representative.
Here’s the thing. Monsters kill people.
(No, not all of them, thank you Pegasus)
But it’s accepted. Killing humans is
Sometimes necessary. We’ve seen
What they’ve done to the rhino, for example.
The dodo, the great auk. Defenceless,
They died at the mercy of humans.
But we are monsters. We have weapons.
And we have every right to kill in self defense.
But Tikbalang, that isn’t what you did.
You stand here accused of multiple counts of sexual assault.
We find that unacceptable, as monsters,
And frankly, when you’re found guilty by such as us
You know you’ve gone too far.
Tom Juniper Poetry 