Leech Woman ~ Prompt #45 ~ for Easy Street Prompts

Africa is the place to find secrets

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The secret for combatting aids

Could be held in

Sutherlandia Frutescens

Growing wild in the Western Cape

And in the hills of Zululand

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And the barren Kalahari

Holds some of the greatest secrets of all ~

The secret for curing obesity ~

The scarce Hoodia plant ~

Coffee in the desert is no problem

With roots from the Shepherd Tree ~

And the Devil Thorn ~

Great for puncturing the feet

Of soldiers and horses ~

Completes its whole lifecycle

In just two weeks

(So find them fast!)

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And if you think the cactus

Must hold the greatest secrets

Of all in Africa

You think wrong!

No indigenous cacti grow in Africa ~

They are all imports ~

(It is no secret

That prickly pear varieties are an

Unadulterated pest)

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The secret for eternal youth

Aaaaaaaaahhhhh

That is the story for dreamers ~

Especially filmakers

Who think the cradle of answers

Lies in darkest Africa

A sci fi African jungle

Captured on film in the 1960's ~

Orchid pollen

Combined with the pineal juices

Of the newly dead

Creates the wine of eternal youth

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It takes a hungry woman

To ravish the blood of men

In the passion of love ~

Like an Amazonian warrior

Bent on being a goddess ~
Like a Black Widow spider
In a world of the elusive

Black Orchid

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Like a

Black Death creates

A Black Phoenix

Secreted in the tombs

Of Africa

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