Herbert Nehrlich - Aspirin

Hear, hear about a deadly sin
it's known as common aspirin.
Each year four thousand children die
as misguided physicians try
to help those youngsters who are ill
by giving them a little pill.

And, looking at an older bloke
he may get sidelined by a stroke
and bleeding in the stomach proper,
soon spreading to the lower, upper
intestines, also to the spleen.
Well, aspirin can soon be seen
wherever blood does circulate
its great potential is a state
of sheer increased morbidity
by causing new pathology.

So, if your doctor says you need
to take a pill that makes you bleed,
say 'No' and tell him 'be my guest,
this time the patient does know best.'

Herbert Nehrlich

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