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      [Solo: perennial discourse in putrefaction]      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