It feeds and grows within the host; It stretches the skin and swells the belly; It dwells as warm as buttered toast,— This toothless pulp of genes and jelly. It soils the lair in which it lives And wallows there within the waste; And not a single **** it gives That *** is an ever-present taste. It sickens her and spends her strength And causes her, the host, dismay, Till it outgrows its den at length And exits in a dreadful way. And where the creature takes its leave Is almost too terrible to believe.