Autopsy

Coroner 1 - He died of poison, the experts say,

                 But they found no proof, no trace.

                 So we have his body here today

                 to discover the disgrace.

 

Coroner 2 - But I heard he was a happy fellow,

                  a painter of sorts, a poet, professor.

                  And other reports...

                  Why?  How could he die so young?

 

Coroner 1 - His outward frame seems very strong.

                  What’s inside will tell us his story...

 

Coroner 2 - Look at this, would you!

                  I don’t believe my eyes --

                  A heart of thirty that looks like ninety!

                  He wasn’t that active.  The whys?

 

Coroner 1 - Crushing words, cruelty, abuse.

                  It doesn’t take much misuse.

 

Coroner 2 - Need we trace this any further?

 

Coroner 1 - No, analyze the present tissue.

 

Coroner 2 - Hmm!  Would you say it’s murder?

 

Coroner 1 - Well, let’s put it this way:

                    All in all the accomplices would

                    range in the hundreds, the thousands:

                    those he met he absorbed their Fall,

                    their hate, their dark, their rotten ways.

                   Its not premeditated murder but...

 

Coroner 2 - But the report!  What you say is not

                   professionally acceptable.

                   There is no evidence to convict one

                   person he met.

 

Coroner 1 - Would ‘overstimulation’ be acceptable?

 

Coroner 2 - Does that involve us?

 

Coroner 1 - No!

 

Coroner 2 - Diagnosis accepted...

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