Mortuary Nights

As morgue gurneys roll —

Bodies from refrigeration to hereafter,

Chyme and bile movement continue,

Despite death's finality, and

Enter enteric explosive environments,

Forfeiting, otherwise inert, moribundity;

Galled, rigged-not mortis, in foul irritative humors,

Homeostatic happenstance of hidden heaving,

Intrepid indigestion via afterlife infatuation of

Juggernaut jetting of jejunal inflatulation

Kept fast in borborygmus, decompression sickness,

Lifelike, albeit deathly rude, and decaying sounds,

Mortality betrayed, animately noisy

Notorious, but not unheard; noxious but not unforeseen.

Olfactorily odorific, overloud

Perturbative disruptions of postmortem peace —

Quite malodorous, as well; death-

Rattles, reflexic, resounding and re-resounding, for enbalmers to hear,

Sibilant with gaseous foul escape, for morticians to smell;

Terrifying in stealthy ruminations,

Underestimating unscrupulous underworld powers,

Strength of purpose, sulfurous and

Terrible juggernaut

Underlying imminent undoing of ultrasonic unloosing,

Venting, voiding unavoidably, to those

Wretchedly witnessing what nightmares come wafting — those

Xenophobic preparers of our dead, distancing — nay!

Yearning for strategic escape — by

Zig instead of zag.