Puritans reckoned the cadavers
in Anatomy were drunks off the street;
idealists said they were benefactors
who had willed their bodies to science,
but the averted manila-coloured
people on the table had pinned-back
graves excavated in them
around which they lay scattered in the end
as if exhumed from themselves.
 

Les Murray

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