Monday, March 10, 2014

Autopsy

My time is
not my own,
my flesh divided
now cold like stone.

Sticky, rigid under
the coroner's gaze,
A mere memory
of my past days.

And as I sit here,
on a steel slab,
scalpel kissing 
my skin and flab…

I cannot help but wonder how,
A person then, is just a body now.

Anirban Kapil Baishya (March 10th, 2014)

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