In the dissection of and the sawing of bone, I've coaxed confessions from the lips of the dead, scrutiny that has clinically shone, The horrifying facts that would never been said... Unbosoming their secrets in the sickening results of their demise, these wretched human riddles, I carve, hack and slice, the dusty skeletons that lurk in closets, bones and entrails, Enduring the ghastly of violent death in my forensic travails... in pieces or completely decomposed, I asses with clinical indifference, The remnants of a life which circumstance has brought to this office, Ensuring that shall endure after the flesh has crumbled and away, Elucidating atrocities and carnage, the job I perform day after day... Persistent incisions that cut to the quick are my stock in trade, To scrutinize remains of a life, painstaking effort have to be made, At times both evidence and flesh are profoundly encrypted and shred, It can be to pry answers from the mouths of the dead... A gutted can pose a bevy of answerless questions to deliberate, Probing with a scalpel, I the morbid cavity that I now eviscerate, Unlocking death's mysteries with my forceps, tweezers and saw, Wringing revelations from a fibula, fossa or jaw... confessions that are uttered without making a sound, informants long dead I've culled from the ground, Beneath the pallid veil of cold flesh or enshrouded in the shredded remains of a face, the truth is my occupation, no matter how decrepit its place... Within the bowels of a horribly mutilated corpse or a splattered brain, Picking apart and deceit til only the cold facts remain, Dead men will tales if you know how to listen and learn, Even when they've stabbed, beaten, shot, hacked up and burned... This morbid for knowledge is not without its rewards, Much can be extrapolated from a infants gourd, My bureau's a slab, my is a corpse, and I've studied with sincere, ardent fervor, And found that often inhumanity to man is all to well deserved...