South Korean Children's Mom-Eating Poetry Frightens Parents: Publishers Will 'Recall and Destroy' All Remaining Volumes

We have to admit: we're scared too! A collection of poems by children entitled A Single Dog has been pulled from bookstores in South Korea after parents complained the volume contains graphic poetry about children killing their mothers. One poem, entitled "On a Day You Don't Want to Go to Hakwon" explains how to eat your mother's heart, while another poem is about a "knife-wielding" doll. Eek! From United Press International:

The poetry book, A Single Dog, was released March 30 by publisher Chulganil and soon drew criticism for the content of some of the poems, including a 10-year-old girl's poem about eating her mother that was accompanied with an illustration of a girl taking a bite out of a human heart while kneeling in a pool of blood near a body.

The poem, by a girl named Lee, is titled "On a Day You Don't Want to Go to Hakwon."

The poem reads:

When you don't want to go to hakwon,
like this
Chew and eat your mom
Boil and eat her, bake and eat her
Spoon her eyeballs and eat them,
Pick out all of her teeth
Tear her hair out
Turn her into lean meat and eat as soup
If she sheds tears, lick them up
Eat her heart last

So it's the most painful.

Kim Suk Boon, an official with the publishing company, initially defended the poetry book as "art" that the company chose not to modify, but the company later said the books would be recalled and destroyed after numerous complaints from parents.

Too scary too scary! Don't buy that book! Read all the gory details at UPI!