Exhumation Poems | Examples


Dr Harold Shipman

The case report of a serial killer who worked at several hospitals as a respiratory therapist is presented.The suspect was initially labeled a benevolent Angel of Death who ended the suffering of elderly patients through mercy killing. However,his subsequently declared motive for homicide was very different from other similar cases in medical settings. The application of new analysis techniques for the detection of pancuronium bromide injection in a series of aged exhumation tissues gave positive results and led to the resultant conviction of the therapist.
Note.Dr Zafar Supari killer.

Grave Robbers

It's midnight me and my mate
are just trying to make a few bob,
better hurry cos we can't be late
or we'll lose our laboratory job,

our place of work wouldn't suit Everyone,
the cemetery in the dark under moonlight,
no worries they're all dead and gone
but sometimes not, then we get a fright,

call it body snatching or exhumation 
the fresher they are the more we earn,
we just supply there's no communication,
set price no such thing as sale or return,

we know it's a dirty job but someone has
to do it for the benefit of all mankind,
they don't care, man woman boy or lass
only interested in what they may find,

we ask no questions, except how many
bodies they need and when required,
we charge seven pounds and a penny,
for each body though more is desired,

we don't advertise all word of mouth
due to the law frowns upon what we do,
we operate in all parts mainly down south
no need to worry we'll be careful with you,

Inspired by the famous grave robbers Burke and Hare 1800s.
(bob is slang for a shilling)

Rehabilitating Myself

How much honest you were 
while climbing the stairs, 
to inherit the shame of century, 
invoking the remains ? 
A hip will not move for the voidance. 
A notch below, the 
exhumation will prove the Taser
attack, stunning the history.

Let us sit and take over tea 
under the depressed moon, pondering 
on the nature of man. When 
you reach the top, you become 
a lesser rich. Groping the lonelier 
grief of poverty, I become 
more humane. The water swells 
very often, I see the world 
now by closed eyes.

I walk with my shadow shrunk 
under my feet. I become 
the world.



Satish Verma

Elephant Man

John Merrick
Freak show fascination 
Machine trauma exhumation 
Have you found it? 
Yes, (An awful morbid operation) 
Did you see it?  No. 
One of the curious 
Pay for a peek 
Life is full of surprise's 
Consider the fate 
Consider the life 
Torture as a spectacle 
Deformed and mutated beyond reform 
Rescued by sympathy 
A man of faith  Ugly as sin 
A freak is never safe 
Difference never wins 


END 



(inspired by the David Lynch film of the same title)

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