Cancer Gangsters [rev] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

It's Nazi extermination camps all over again when chemo,
pure poison, is given, punishing patients for their temerity
in getting cancer, such cheek deserves toxins; how unfair -
death-dealing oncologists used emotional blackmail to force
a choice between chemo death and amputation at the hip on
my hapless colleague, such a dire threat led to chemo & now
she's bald, a clear sign of what's happening in her body, killing
white blood cells lessening natural defense against proliferating
cancer cells, chemo's best result is the cancer will be gone and
YOU too, declaring it's better to die of chemo than letting cancer

Loose; if you survive we can still hack off the leg if some surgeon
insists, you can die bit by bit as we excise every threat - too
bad about quality of life - we only care about quantity - if you
live like a freak & can barely breathe without a nose on your face,
a hole in the place of your cheeks; we've succeeded in prolonging your miserable life; if you don't like living with your tongue outside your mouth as skin and muscles are removed, keep quiet
and follow an alternative diet, bicarb of soda mixed with syrup & carrot juice, hah! you'll be all on your own, no medical personnel drying tears spilling from one eye as the other was destroyed
when we amputated your face

We use new techniques to affix a new face on your skull, so come,
we'll turn you into a martyr for modern skullduggery in surgery -
you can be our guinea pig as your life has no other value and we
are theCancer Gangsters making war on these cells, killing patients also is quite beside the point: people thank us for experimenting
on all submitting to our greedy scalpel-wielding hands, it's great to be a body-moulding mechanic destroying cancer and killing the
host by default; medical doctors are always unstoppably eager
to destroy human joy!