Specimen

	I am ripe, full, swollen
	You examine my body where it has fallen
	You have a habit to feed -- and this fruit
	Seems like the sweetest poison
	I am supine, passive, silent
	I long to be used used in the way I was meant
	Obscene fertility in casual beauty
	My blood spilled, my seeds spread
	This is the natural way
	I exist for you to evaluate
	Shat out or systematically bred
	Or carefully preserved but dead
	“My God!” I hear your voice, “such an unusual specimen”
	I am gutted, taxidermy-stuffed, mended, gutted again
	I am supine, passive, silent
	I’ve earned my place among men of science
	My likeness described by poets and painters
	The jewel of your collection
	Such an unusual specimen
	Gutted, stuffed, mended and gutted again
	To those of independent taste
	The height of fashion -- perfection!

	I am ripe, full, swollen
	You examine my body where it has fallen
	You have a habit to feed and this fruit
	Seems like the sweetest poison
	I am supine, passive, silent
	I long to be used used in the way I was meant
	Obscene fertility in casual beauty
	My blood spilled, my seeds spread
	This is the natural way
	I exist for you to evaluate
	Shat out or systematically bred
	Or carefully preserved but dead
	" My God!" I hear your voice, " such an unusual specimen"
	I am gutted, taxidermystuffed, mended, gutted again
	I am supine, passive, silent
	I' ve earned my place among men of science
	My likeness described by poets and painters
	The jewel of your collection
	Such an unusual specimen
	Gutted, stuffed, mended and gutted again
	To those of independent taste
	The height of fashion perfection!