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The Cannibals By Christian Ward

Russian police in the city of Perm have arrested three homeless men suspected of butchering a 25-year-old man, eating part of the corpse, and selling the remainder to a kiosk selling pies and kebabs.


Did they dance with the corpse

while wearing its kidneys 

like earrings, swing scarves 


of intestines around their necks? 

Was it offered vodka, the chance 

to play cards?


When it was sold, did any 

customer notice eyeballs 

in a meat and potato filling, 


human flesh disguised as lamb;

did any hear a man calling after

his soul as they chewed his heart?

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