Blunt Force Flight - The County Medical Examiners

The aftermath of blunt force trauma crumpled in the morgue

Crushed decedents pupled to rags, skin-wrapped splintered bones

Splaying limbs bruised and rent, finding countless dents

Reenacting comic flights, the graceless cause of death

Pureed entrails porridge

Organs jumbled raw

New tenant in cold storage

Brains pitched liquescent

Teeth ground in maw

Whole carcass quite putrescent

Bodies struck by vehicles, impact sending flight

Whiplash limbs twist midair, spinning from the plight

Subjects fallen from great heights, hemorrhage on the ground

Long bones jutting through torn skin, leaking pasty mound

Blunt force trauma injury pulverizes subjects instantly

Postmortem X-ray imagery tells the grisly tale

Dislocating joint from bone, the corpse makes crepitating moans

I dissect but quickly sew, completely overwhelmed

Frame cracks and rifts

Decedent lifts

Pirouette through the air

As tendons tear

Tubs of sickly yellow fat spilled from dermal splits

Carcass weighing ten less pounds from missing crime scene bits

Scalp and skin dislodged and sloughing, draped in wrinled pules

The wealth of trauma adds new pages to my growing file

Slackened jaw unpinned

Hinges open wide

Forms a ghastly grin

Eyes protruding pink

Looking quite surprised

They deflate and sink

Puzzles reassembled

Not one truly resembles

Humanity at all

(The stuff is an utter waste

A shambles of a closed-casket case)

Final flight recorded on the gragile human body

A trip so terminal as to be without ignominy

Evidence presented in crushed bits of scrap

Flailing jellied form, a boneless pummeled sack

Skein of tangled viscera wind fractured discs of vertebra

Life-succinet ephemera: It’s snugged uncermoniously

Road debris embedded in the chalky, scraped riven skin

Innards now revolt within and rupture sloshing froth

Frame cracks and rifts

Decedent lifts

Pirouette through the air

As tendons tear