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Elephant Man

John Merrick Freak show fascination Machine trauma exhumation Have you found it? Yes, (An awful morbid operation) Did you see it? No. One of the curious Pay for a peek Life is full of surprise's Consider the fate Consider the life Torture as a spectacle Deformed and mutated beyond reform Rescued by sympathy A man of faith Ugly as sin A freak is never safe Difference never wins END (inspired by the David Lynch film of the same title)

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