Good Friday autopsy

Victim is of indeterminate race,

male, thirty-three, a simple homicide,

no clear identifying marks, aside

from evidence of torture to the face,

back, abdomen. Another look betrays

a lateral incision in the side,

six centimeters deep & half as wide.

The lab results will take a few more days,

but judging by the trauma to both wrists

& ankles, an orderly could guess the cause

of death. The autopsy, as such, is done.

Still, it will take a team of specialists

to ascertain exactly who this was.

A father, possibly. Somebody's son.