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Mal Webb
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Well, I propose a toast to the mitosist
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With the mostest
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She's a ghost who can boast
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From coast to coast in every Hela cell
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She's more cultured than Chanel
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Cartier or YSL
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But she's tired of being quite so huge
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And dizzy from the centrifuge
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She's quick frozen, colour-fast
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Her prison cell is built to last
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Dear Helen Lane
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Did you know your coffin's final nail
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Is bigger than a blue whale?
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And so it will remain
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Just as long as cell biologists
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Like peering at your private bits
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It's a grand humiliation
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Showing now across the nation
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Mutation on a huge scale
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Bigger than a blue whale
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Dear Helen Lane
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Did you know the bit you left behind
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May help to cure its own kind?
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So maybe you can claim
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A saintly little perch in every church
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For contributions to research
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Well back in 1953, m'lady had a malady
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A cervix abnormality
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That led to her fatality
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The cells went for a biopsy
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That showed up the malignancy
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But also a propensity
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To multiply so rapidly
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That the scientists went on to see
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What other uses there could be
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For her expansive quality
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They shared her around extensively
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To every good laboratory
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Her fame was spreading globally
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'Til nowadays she's said to be
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The biggest lonely clone there'll ever be
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Arabidopsis and drosophila
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May have advice to offer her
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On how it's best to keep your cool
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When you've become a research tool
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Dear Helen Lane
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Did you know your flock of little vultures
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Divide and conquer lesser cultures?
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But not that you're to blame
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Your name before
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They diddled with the facts
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Was really Henrietta Lacks
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Dear Helen Lane
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Did you know that part you left to science
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Is now a giant among giants?
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And on a higher plane
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Your omnipresent question
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Bids the answer
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God's a black woman's cancer
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