Morgagnic Anatomics - The County Medical Examiners

Repulsive slab of pasty meat

Torqued wide with craftsman’s pride

Revealing a slick tub of grime

I slide my arms deftly inside

This husk once sentient

Now on the cusp of pestilence

In science’s name I rent

A grisly educational end

Finding and excising anatomy

Mustering my knowledge of postmortem history

Instructed and guided by

The infamous anatomist-Giovanni Morgagni

I find the liver lobed

In cirrhotic hold

I scrape arterial plaque

Flay pericardial sacs

Disease invariably ends with me

I cave it from the corpse for further study

Human shelf life proved once again

The tax of living corrupts unerringly

Necrolytic bubbling, chymic innards splash

Soupy rot sprays from gastric mush

Piping putrefaction makes gruel of its host

Fogged moisture beads my dripping face guard

Grotesque anatomy

Students of disease

Organic debris

Lessons from Morgagni

Opened stiffs

Olidious whiffs

Putrefaction pours

Spilling gore

Hunting down diseases, divining macabre truth

Sickened innards coo, squirting enzymic clues

Tracking pathogenic progress to its end

Retching from the answers found therein

Organs are sorted, labeled, and weighed

Adroitly butchering carcasses, for which I’m well paid

To anatomic manuals, I steadfastly abide

It’s the only method to navigate while inside

The amazing human machine

Inside out is rarely seen

I’ve patiently toiled and trained

To make it my stock and trade