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            Monstrosity, part II
            Upon reading "... aborted babies being cannibalized,"
            an article by Liz Townsend


            One hospital in one year
            aborted seven thousand,
            what waste if we do not use them.

            From the tiny fetus
            medicines are made, also
            delectable delicacies.

            One doctor prefers the taste
            of bodies from young women,
            especially the first if it's male.

            Make soup is best, she says
            after consuming hundreds -
            once you've adjusted to the smell.

            A brew cooked up with ginger
            and orange peel is said
            to have cleared-up one man's asthma.

            Eating the preborn humans
            is not illegal, but don't
            dine on endangered reptiles.







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