In the dissection of flesh and the sawing of bone, coaxed confessions from the lips of the dead, Postmortem scrutiny that has shone, The facts that would have never been said... Unbosoming their secrets in the sickening results of their demise, Stomaching these human riddles, I carve, hack and slice, Illuminating the dusty skeletons that in closets, bones and entrails, Enduring the visage of violent death in my forensic travails... Whether in pieces or decomposed, I asses with clinical indifference, The remnants of a life which grisly has brought to this office, Ensuring that truth shall endure after the has crumbled and away, Elucidating atrocities and carnage, the thankless job I perform day after day... incisions that cut to the are my stock in trade, To scrutinize what 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 torso can pose a bevy of answerless questions to deliberate, Probing with a scalpel, I expose the cavity that I now must eviscerate, death's mysteries with my forceps, tweezers and saw, Wringing revelations from a fibula, fossa or jaw... confessions that are uttered without a sound, From informants long dead that 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 resting place... the bowels of a horribly mutilated corpse or a splattered brain, apart flesh and deceit til only the cold facts remain, Dead men will tales if you know how to listen and learn, Even when been stabbed, beaten, shot, hacked up and burned... This quest for knowledge is not without its rewards, Much can be extrapolated from a decrepit infants gourd, My a slab, my text is a corpse, and studied with sincere, ardent fervor, And found that often inhumanity to man is all to well deserved...