Riggormortis Posthumous Muscular Rigidity

The tepid carcass examinately reclines on my tableIts peculiar muscular activity, rigor mortis, works inmy favorDetermining PMI through rigid, bone-cracking meansPostmortem rigidity occurs through the depletion ofATP...Adenosine triphosphate is required for musclerelaxationBut metabolic activity continues after death andcreates a reactionLactid acid is spent and exhausts the store ofglycogenMuscles go hard from the abnormal links between actinand myosin...This maturating stiff...Becomes quite stiff...Positioning the corpse can be quite a Herculean taskAs I bend the crepitating unmalleable limbs withrevolting cracksObstinate appendages stubbornly give way under mydragoon effortsMy aching muscles are overtaxed and pushed well passeddiscomfort......Paralytic legs, unflexing arms......Carrion with all its frozen charm......Unmoving torso, intractable neck......Deplorable corpse a total wreck...Between 2 and 12 hours is the solidifying timerequiredFor abductors and adductors to become unyieldinglymiredIt will take a day for outstretched extremities toacquiesceFinally amenable to my adroit limb-wrenching finesse...The lampooning hu-mannequin's muscle proteins aredevouredAs the taciturn body achieves maximal rigor in 12hours12 hours more and the muscular fiber grudgingly givewayWhen the proteolytic enzymes in the lysosomes ofmuscle cells escape......Corpse piquantly olid......Now maceratedly flaccid...Barring rare cadaveric spasms, a PMI timeline can bemappedFactor in environmental variables and the effects theycan haveRipening malodorous remains can speak from the graveAnd tell us their time of death by how their musclesbehave......Paralytic legs, unflexing arms......Carrion with all its frozen charm......Unmoving torso, intractable neck......Deplorable corpse a total wreck...