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poe36: Autopsy

Gross anatomy revealed
A topographic landscape of multiple variance
The scars of a million sins and wounds that festered a thousand years .
Eroded tracts of atrophised tissue marked the invasion of parasites
Arteries infarcted , deep venous ulcers festered , left gaping craters
Surrounded by acrid interstitial seepage and undebrided slough
The rigid tension of all rigor relaxed as decomposition rots the stays
Of cellular turgidity that weeped plasma into the open unsutured undressed
Beneath a fragile misty shroud .*
Incisions of exploration across the cartesian axes on the x,y and z planes .
Staphyllococcal flora pioneered the torso and green belt assumed a new definition
Closer examination exposed the deep labyrinths of intrusion
Like a carcass fading in the desolation of a desert's shifting sands
And here and there vitriotic patches of radiation burns
Just kelloidal tissue compacted into dunes .
Petrified gangrenous lashes intersected with frequent confluency
And escaping gaseous fumes rent the air with acrid potency .
The limbs emacerated * , the intimate beauty long circumcised
The organism's existence reeks of compromise .
The fertile strata of a womb sterilised by rolling crusading rape
A relentless tenure of stripping veins of gold and arteries of diamonds
Leaving ulcerative integumentary thromboses
And breath laced with necroses
Diseased pleura lay exposed
From a barrage of inflicted wounds .
The lasvage  bags draining cesspools
Away from the breasts that delivered water .
Brutal scaring evidenced untamed neglect
Of some surgeon's haphazzard plastic attempt .
A bilateral median incision exposes
The mesenteric decay and releases accumulated
Concoction of noxious hydrocarbon gases
Manifesting in a plume of instant ignition
That burnt for an endless instant
No tissue remained for histopathology
The viscous blood oozed slowly black
As the probes entry located fractured rimose shards
Of a vertebral system out of sequence , repetitious crack after crack
The aftermath of invasive parasites still colonised on the surface divining
Avaricely co-existing with other life forms
In a cesspool f wanton destruction and decay
Of bacteria and viruses in a frenzied heated display
Of an invasion covered in hoary slough
Imprinted with the arbitrary genetic ambition
That subcribes not to the word enough
Imposters of self impression imprisoned in their own impropriety
Of dereliction of duty
Omnium gatherum of carnivarous omnipotent poison
Leaving a wake of rigor and resiled in the conduction of sense
Inside the atmosphere of empty space
Geometric tumours bleed their waste
Into the cellular paste
Subject – Africa
 Cause of death - MAN                                                  

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