County Medical Examiners Medicocriminal Entomology Lyrics

Medicocriminal Entomology Lyrics

When unidentified remains are relinquished to our care

That are so decayed
and liquefied as to make diagnosis

quite a chore

When the putrescent
canvas of death is teeming with

bristling life 

With tiny anthropoid
stowaways nestled in every pore...

My autopsy technicians mistake the
corpse shudder for

a cadaveric spasm

But upon closer inspection
they witness the nauseating

wave of insect activity

The feasting
and chatter drowns the neon hum from the

morgue lamps and fans

And
the ambient temperature rises 5 degrees as their

chitinous bodies skitter
in putridity...

The corpse is alive...reanimated through entomological

means

The John Doe swells...as parasitic activity literally

bursts through his seams

Seeping rivers of eggs...hatching larvae are
hurriedly

washed down the drain

Call the Forensic
Entomologist...everyone knows he's got

bugs on the brain...

...Carcass hive...

...Cadaverine nest...

The Forensic
Entomologist is a specialist in this

field

Of which there are three
separate and distinct

components

The Urban field deals with
insecthuman environment

matters

Stored-Products handles infestation
of commodities and

products...

But the one that we require is the
Medicolegal

Entomology field

With its eccentric bug experts and
their forensic

Ph.D.'s

They've classified and catalogued their
necrophilous

winged friends

And can determine PMI by the stadiums
and stages of

insect activity...

...Blowflies...spiders...beetles...mites and lice...

...Maggots...larvae...pupa...hatch and fly...

...Crawling...squirming...breeding...burrowing...

...Medicocriminal
entomology...

The Forensic Entomologist will analyze the cadaveric