Don't Do Drugs

It's only when you read or see the grisly details of a thing that you start to take it seriously, and realize it's not a joke.

Defacing any property’s a crime.
Defacing any person is a phrase
I would have thought a turn, in subtle ways
Describing an assault.  This very time
It’s literal; the face was taken off
(Or part of it), consumed, and while appalled
I’m sure I’d be, ere decency had called
My morbid curiosity and scoff-/ing
Phrases in to reign, I had to laugh
(A moment).  For it couldn’t have been real.
The headline had the very look and feel
Of any in The Onion; fully half
Of all those weighing in were well agreed
(Until we read how he had made him bleed).