Bearbaiting

for entertainment they placed you on a chain, tight enough you could feel the metal with every breath.

pepper shoved up your nose until it bled when everything took too much effort.

iron pokers ripped gaping wounds into your flesh as your rumbling growl died down.

they reveled in the blood you spilled while struggling to survive and booed once the fight came to an end.

for entertainment they baited you with cruelty and scorn until the chain was all you'd known, until escape was down the barrel of a shotgun.