The thinking 'bout Saint Peter blues.

I am told
by people I trust reasonably well
that they crucified him
upside down.

I am told
he requested it that way
so they did him up special.

Personally,
I am not convinced
that it could work
like that or in that way.

With nail(s) through the feet, I mean.

Cos it seems like skin 'tween the tarsals
just wouldn’t hold
not with the weight of
a fully grown apostle on it
& with nothing like the ulna/radius combo
to compensate.

They’d probably have to tie him up there with a rope.

He’d still die.
Eventually.

Maybe I was simply told wrong.
Maybe he tripped & hit his head
in a dark Roman alley
or fell out a window,
drowned crossing the Tiber,
or caught the latest bug goin’ round.

After all,
there are so many ways to die
& it was all so cheap & easy
back then.

Or so I’m told.