Organs Illegally Sold

A poem about sell organs illegally.

 

Organs Illegally Sold

Their bodies were old

And told they wouldn’t live long,

But really their organs were fine.

Their relatives forgot them and

Left them behind.

 

Secretly they were put to sleep

In the middle of the night.

The sight of their eyeballs and

Parts being removed and sold

For the use of others is just

Horrendous to the American nurses

But that’s what America voted for.

 

Government healthcare coverage

Is what they all shared in common,

No one cared what happened

To them and the government

Made a fortune selling their

Body parts to the Chinese government

For financial debts unpaid.

 

We’ve sold out by selling

Our souls to the red and gold.

 

Reviews

[Pax Analog]

This subject is a staple of cyberpunk, w/its emphasis on present and future black markets. I wrote about it too; the text is buried in my old computer, former website content. Don't know exactly where the market for illegal organs stands right now, but I'm sure some of it is going on.

The idea of rushing the process w/disposable oldies w/useful organs is certainly ghoulish enough. Linking it to gov't healthcare is more ghoulish still. Alas, the U.S. is far more horrorshow about the latter issue, fact and fiction, than the more humanistic Canada and UK.

And then the coup de gras: selling to China. Well, ya know the entire corporatist globalization sweep has been amounting to an Invasion of the Body Snatchers anyway. Hearts, minds, souls, bodies infected w/the most insidious fascistic form of capitalism.

Shell game organ swapping is small potatoes next to entire populations stolen by The Matrix. Thanks for the ghoulish thought-provoking, though. ;-)

[Norma M Sutton]

Powerfully written and scary.

[James Bonner]

I like the way you put this together, the structure. :)

[Dream Weaver]

Nice way to vent Marie, Voice your opinion, it does count.
Lash out at Governments all over the world, because they
all have become extremely arrogant and pompous... Oh and
lets not forget devious too :) Nice write.

[G. Anderson]

Eww. Not your writing, just the fact that this actually happens... Portrayed truthfully and a bit bluntly, but honest nonetheless.

Gage Anderson

[Forever Mine]

This could almost be a movie... It actually kinda reminds me of repo men, with the whole body parts thing. Very nice job though. This is one of my favorites.

[Liza]

hey - i got a read request from ya today
but reviewed yesterday :)

[Michael of Gilead]

This, and healthcare sound just like a movie....Coma? :)

Somewhere secret, right now, my clone is growing a liver and lungs for me....shhhhhh

[Charles]

i'm at a loss for words, marie. but i do thank you for bringing this to my attention.

[Sam Severn]

Freaky, n' freakin' FABULOUS!!!

[Liza]

wow; i didn't know this
you've expressed this news so creatively
yet the sense of urgency shines though