MEDICAL POETRY: CERVICALLY

CERVICALLY

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Hi guys!

As some of us know, January is cervical cancer awareness month.

Women, all over the world, are encouraged to get their pap smears done, if they are over 18years of age and sexually active.

This, is very important, as progression of the disease can be halted by early detection of the neoplastic process.

So, I got a doctor-writer friend to write a beautiful poem on cervical cancer.

Trust me, you’d enjoy it!

CERVICALLY- by OLADIPO ABIMBOLA

The sins of CIN

Spineless technology is rendered clueless,

Invasive, Pervasive, Elusive

The worst nightmare of the devil, Lucifer’s mother

With costly despair and women, murdered

Magnifies until she putrefies,

Aceto-acetic assertive,

Lugol iodine’s fugitive,

Noble women have bled to death,

Evil mistresses have been consumed by earth

Oh the wonder of that sinister cervix

You are such a gradually progressive devil

Eating up birth canals at varying levels

Biting up health and publishing in journals

Leave us with a cure and be not fatal

Ah! Ah! Happy you are beneath me,

Lol! That’s because of this divine power

But the scientist kills you so early,

And the spiritist keeps you so gory

With my heavy love for life

And flimsy hate for pain

Though Papanicolau had his fair share of your torment

Mine is a doubtless destruction of your intent

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