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Originally Posted by Brian Allgar View Post
(Not exactly news of the day, but …)

“The simple fact is that the cancer industry employs too many people and produces too much income to allow a cure to be found.”

They’d found a cheap and simple cure for cancer
But “lost” the formula. They called it “karma”.
“Yeah, lifelong pills, not healing, are the answer
To keep us filthy rich”, declared Big Pharma.
Brian, one of my favorite conspiracy theories ....

A Successful Poet Receives His Diagnosis of Terminal Cancer

The poet stills his lyre, bates his breath
As Cancer drums the slow tattoo of Death;
While hospitals and doctors start to euchre
The poet of his lifelong pile of lucre.
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