Contempt vs Disdain

Contempt is a cannibal’s pot
hastily heated with wood amassed
to burn at once, water boiling hot
so that the victim is scalded fast.

Disdain is a witch’s cauldron,
the victim lounging calmly at ease
so he, or she, relaxes till done,
dying by methodical degrees

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