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It might have escaped from a laboratory:
a biological curiosity
with the body of an octopus
but no limbs, a pudgy
limpid belly, jellified cheeks
and bulging condom eyes
with a Double Decker wrapper
for a tongue. The flushers
discovered its mother
snoozing in Whitechapel’s bowels
swaddled in a blanket of fat
a recumbent stalagmite
of discarded wet wipes
bringing London’s movements to a halt.
Now a gang of riveted children
gasp at a quivering sliver
caged behind strengthened glass
as it spawns an army of small flies
and wonder at the perversity
of a monstrous sculpture
carved out of our own bodies,
a disgusting portrayal in oils
of a terrible time of waste.
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