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"Forensic scientists
in Tennessee

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study bodies in stages of rot.

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They walk their laboratory,
a courtyard, noting bloat.

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The beetles gnaw,
bacteria is coup d'etat.

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For the young, death
is the ineffable,

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but now, you consider
it the equalizer.

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A pretty blonde is a fat man.

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You imagine everyone after
five, two weeks, 18 days gone.

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Belief in a soul, what once
hung suspended and quivering,

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decays too, mechanistically
and involuntarily.

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Is the afterlife
invented or instinctive?

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Are we like river water
that moves through waves?

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Or ocean waves that
move through water?

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Nothing's new in
fear, the impulse

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is to find your way back,
like the prisoner who repents.

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Prayer the only way
to accept the body,

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the body abandoned
and reinforced."

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