Long before I've examined the body or entered the tile-lined morgue While I'm reviewing the official homicide files and removing my tools from their drawers The decedent and the morgue is expertly prepared by underlings-faithful dieners and resident nurses The procedure undertaken is always the same, from our tables to the backs of hearses My interns were taught the fine art of cadaveric interviews, an ME's sine qua non tradition To arrange the body into what's known in medical circles as The Standard Anatomical Position.
They remove the corpse from the body bag And hoist its heft onto the cold, steel slab They prepare my tools for the surgery And disrobe the cadaver for its necropsy.
Vitreous fluid reeks Tissue samples stink Excised organs leak They stain my lab coat pink Gurneys groan and squeal Charred skin sloughs and peels Bloody human veal The odor makes me reel.
Standard-the procedure for hospitals and morgues Anatomical-it enables complete dissection to inspect the gore Position-its what pathologists and coroners are for.
Immortalizing decay with our Nikon camera before we ravage the body with our Stryker saw Nimble fingers search for micro fibers as the skin is vacuumed for forensic evidence as required by law Fingernails are scraped for blood and tissue, dermis debris lodged beneath the nail bed Clothes are cut gingerly from the body with fabric cutting scissors, revealing a body stained red Our forensic procedures are not taught in medical school, and are lost upon the average physician The corpse, now nude, can be placed on its back and situated into. The Standard Anatomical Position.
My assistants scrub and wash the corpse With mild soaps and water, postmortem bath in the morgue My tools are laid out, gleaming on the tray The scene is set...I'm paged and on my way.
Bile, hot and thick Post-mortem facial tics Rotten skin so slick My Stryker saw revs and kicks Exsanguinated pale Gas diseased and stale The fumes I inhale Dissected organs on the scale.
Standard-the procedure for hospitals and morgues Anatomical-it enables complete dissection to inspect the gore Position-its what pathologists and coroners are for.
The metal table gleams-scrubbed by my faithful team. My talented medical assistants. They've emptied the body bag-and checked its two toe tags. And readied zip lock bags for evidence.
The cadaver spatter is impeccably cleaned; tools are washed, tiles are scrubbed and hosed down The bedraggled floor is swabbed of its puddles and emptied into a bucket filled a foul ruddy-brown Our plastic scrubs, now a red liquescent mess, are disposed of in the proper biohazard bin My industrial-strength gilded rubber gloves are stripped and tossed as I lather my hands in the sink and rinse. . .
My dieners take out the biohazardous trash And line the waste bins with fresh orange bags They shave the cadaver's hair for cranial dissection And ensure that the autopsy is assisted to completion... Faithfully arranging the corpse into the Standard Anatomical Position.
Standard-the procedure for hospitals and morgues Anatomical-it enables complete dissection to inspect the gore Position-its what pathologists and coroners are for The carcass lies belching, eructing methane gas Its thorax slightly heaving until the hot wind can finally pass The offalent stench leaves everyone in the room repulsed and aghast.Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
