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© by Mike Alexander

Good Friday autopsy
Language: English 
Victim is of indeterminate race,
male, thirty-three, a simple homicide,
no clear identifying marks, aside
from evidence of torture to the face,
 
back, abdomen. Another look betrays
a lateral incision in the side,
six centimeters deep & half as wide.
The lab results will take a few more days,
 
but judging by the trauma to both wrists
& ankles, an orderly could guess the cause
of death. The autopsy, as such, is done.
 
Still, it will take a team of specialists
to ascertain exactly who this was.
A father, possibly. Somebody’s son.

First published in The Raintown Review, Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2011.


Text Authorship:

  • by Mike Alexander , first published 2011, copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Robert McCauley , "Good Friday autopsy" [ tenor and piano ], from A Seven of Sonnets, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2018-10-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 92

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