Necrotic Apologues - The County Medical Examiners

Disgusting apologues teach grisly parables

Didactic explorations of putrefying stiffs

Decay: a fact of nature most allegorical

The fetid realizations quickly make me sick

Pathology turned philosophy

Seminar and necropsy

Stippled flesh fouled with soot spell a gruesome clue

Spatter patterns ink confessions sanguinely penned

Pieces found in garbage sacs point to sober truths:

Life is terminal and contritely spent

Bloated sage on my table

Spins a rancid, age-old fable

Slime and rot

Pock and clot

Corpse gives in

To pathogens

Hack the mess

Quite distressed

The face below

Is my own

Pathology-warding litany

Autopsy-tragic finale

The splattered carcass stagnates

It seeps slick purge onto the floor

It heralds our own fates

Destinies described in gore

Abraded rope compression marks underline the fact

Mangled corpses offer postmortem viewpoints

Ragged stab wounds carve futile warnings

Jutting knife hilts like dripping exclamation points

Vomitus epiphany

Emeritus, so reeking

Bilious slag

Blood-soaked slab

Wasting host

Hot compost

To my chagrin

Gross Doctrines

Consume my thoughts

Amidst the rot

Pathology-warding litant

Autopsy-tragic finale