The Researchers New Tongue

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A short poem based off [[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7561|SCP-7561]]], for [[*user BanishedDemoness]] ArtEx 2025. I hope you enjoy! I had no clue what to do but your prompt indicated an interest in body horror (well hopefully). Massive thanks to [[*user Fermentating]] for the fantastic artwork that hopefully is a nice finishing touch.

Thanks to my critters for saving me from utter despair and hopelessness and teaching me lots about poetry along the way!
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The louse began as an egg, by her mothers side.
Her mother fed off the tongue, from nutrients supplied.

She waited and waited, for soon would be her chance.
With a rumble from below, the louse took a stance.

It was the intern's cough that sent her out
And louse was shot from host into doubt.

On that droplet, the outside she withstood.
Clinging to it tightly as her little legs could.
She’d surely find a home, a place for parenthood.

As time passed by doubt trickled into her mind.
But after only two minutes a new home she'd find.

The soon host, a doctor, drew in a great breath,
The egg flew into the host with great speed.
With this act, mother delivered from death,
Was landed on the tongue from which she'd soon feed.

She loved the moisture, the warmth, for her this was home.
A shelter, a dome of tough human bone.

After only some hours, the little egg hatched.
Beneath the tongue, her little legs latched.

And just as her mother had, from the tongue she did eat.
The vessels, tongue and blood, all a delicious treat.

That hunger, the gnawing always present, always there.
So, into the tongue, her mandibles continued to tear.
At last! The central blood vessel, she was there.

This was what she had struggled so hard, so long to find.
Wrapped upon this tongue, she found her peace of mind.

The remains of the tongue soon blackened, rotted, died.
And when it detached, as the tongue she disguised.
Such wonderful food! Enjoyed this new tongue,
And so on the stub she stayed tightly clung.

From the host she drank the warm, nutritious blood.
With each new heartbeat pulsed another tasty flood.

The siphoned energy used to create more eggs for the lair.
These new eggs carried to more hosts, borne upon the air.

A slimy bumpy tough replacement tongue, for the host.
Too convincing, too close to be detected, diagnosed.

So for many weeks of life, she'd live without strife.
But things soon changed, for that little louse's life
When her home, the young doctor, came under the knife.

The dentist, as he cut off the louse, began to speak.
"Those suits, they could've warned me this job was this bleak."

Through the mouth, the blades sliced and scratched.
Until at last, the poor little louse became detached.
And that, for the little louse, was the end, she was done.
Cut off, and dropped into a jar labelled SCP-7561.

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> **Filename:**Louse
> **Author:** [[*user Fermentating]]
> **License:** CC BY-SA 4.0
> **Source Link:** https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/the-researchers-new-tongue/Louse
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