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Chinese whispers

pass from cell to cell

as doctors walk their rounds

examining the inmates,

taking samples, making notes.

Harvesters among them

boost their meager earnings

organizing. . . .

A chance encounter

with a foreigner in need

sows seeds, a scheme

to combat shortage,

nurture dollars.

Secret meetings mulched with bribes.

Autumn plucking:

Surreptitiously the harvesters

reap local prisons,

specimens for typing,

mix-and-matching dissidents

awaiting execution.

At death, excisions.

Harvesters transport each prisoner

in pieces, trade their gleanings —

kidneys, liver, lungs, corneas,

pancreas, and skin

for transplantation.

Selling.

Walls of silence.

Joanna Watson, M.F.P.H.M.
5 Church St.
Harbury . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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