(originally posted March 2022)

A man with a head in a bag
(so he said)
and a curved-shaped sword
came to me in my chains
and said he could deliver me
but demanded an exchange:
my life
as his wife.
So:
to live married to a stranger
whose personality could be terrible
but might be agreeable
or
to be eaten by a sea monster.
Being blackmailed into marriage is bad.
But I would rather not die for the principle.