In the dissection of and the sawing of bone, I've coaxed confessions from the of the dead, Postmortem scrutiny that has clinically shone, The horrifying 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, the dusty skeletons that lurk in closets, and entrails, Enduring the ghastly visage of violent death in my travails... Whether in pieces or completely decomposed, I asses with clinical indifference, The of a life which grisly circumstance has brought to this office, Ensuring that truth shall after the flesh has crumbled and rotted away, atrocities and carnage, the thankless job I day after day... Persistent incisions that cut to the quick are my stock in trade, To scrutinize remains of a life, painstaking effort will have to be made, At both evidence and flesh are profoundly encrypted and shred, It can be murder to pry answers the mouths of the dead... A gutted can pose a bevy of answerless questions to deliberate, Probing a scalpel, I expose the morbid cavity that I now must eviscerate, Unlocking death's mysteries with my forceps, and saw, Wringing from a fibula, fossa or jaw... Recording confessions that are uttered without making a sound, From informants dead that I've culled from the ground, Beneath the veil of cold flesh or enshrouded in the shredded remains of a face, Exhuming the is my occupation, no matter how its resting place... Within the bowels of a horribly mutilated corpse or a splattered brain, apart flesh and deceit til only the cold facts remain, men will tell tales if you know how to listen and learn, Even when they've been stabbed, beaten, shot, up and burned... This morbid quest for is not without its rewards, Much can be extrapolated a decrepit 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...