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Five subjects deemed enemies to the state

Offer their freedom and a fresh clean slate

Left with no choice, they accepted

Fifteen days with no sleep you must go

Results are what we wish to see

Breathe our gases

Locked in a chamber with small portholes

Now lets begin

The doors closed as the gas spewed

None could have predicted the outcome

But it would come soon

All seems well

The subjects being monitored

Come day five and the experiment would take a turn

As panic and distress now sink in

Paranoia begins

Conversation stops as they

Plead for their release

After the ninth day, the first of them started screaming

Eventually screams reduced to squeaks

One man had physically torn his own vocal cords

Yet the other subjects they paid no mind

Unhindered they continued whispering into the microphones

While another subject began screaming

The remaining captives began tearing

Page after page from their books

Only to smear their own feces on them

To paste them calmly over the portholes

The screaming promptly stopped

Three more days now passed

Nothing to be seen or heard

But on day fourteen they said

"We are opening the door

Step back and lie on the floor or you will be shot

Compliance is freedom"

"We no longer wish to be freed" stated a subject

As the scientists broke into a debate

It was decided to open the door on the fifteenth day

To reveal the mystery inside

The chamber flushed of the stimulant gas and filled with fresh air

Immediately voices erupt

"Please, please, please, turn the gas on!"

Screaming, "Please, I need it!"

What was seen was hardly alive

Creatures of no name

Flesh disintegrated

Vitals now exposed

Meat ripped from the bone

How putrid the stench must have been

Each of the living ones now off to surgery

So they could attempt to study their subjects

Crying out for their haven of toxic breath

Only to be shot by a man who said

"What are you? I must know"