~ MORTUARY

Decomposing
Four minutes after death
My encapsulated life
Now acquires
Its final metamorphosis.

I begin
To digest myself,
Cells dissolving
From the inside out,
Tissues turning to liquid
Then to swell gas.

I am feast immovable
To bacteria and flies:
Skin rippling infestation,
larvae hatching in my flesh,
Now nutrient broth of
Expired lies.

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N.B.: It is a forensic fact that the human body begins its decomposition exactly 240 seconds after death.