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