Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The Admission

This is the scene in the movie where we learn

that the zombies teeth become so accentuated


because the news of being dead travels first

to the mandibles then to the soul.


Maybe not so vampire or werewolf like

but you have to admit the teeth, the beacon


fires that let your whole being now it still is

and is yet no more, you have to admit they


get awful yellow awful quick, like a cart load

of corpses during the plague, the news


comes out of these scenes, and some bodies

get old and start to smell, right? and some get


up all tooth wrong, leaving little spurts of juice

like tips on the table and start to come


at you and you wonder how to get out of this

scene, the frames slipping so fast you fall ,


or you could be suspended in white space,

or slick on a wetness and as everything slows down


you notice how it gets long, gums wrinkling

like theater curtains and everything going yellow,


tumbling upon you like a sack of lemons was

held above you for so long and finally someone


came by with a sharp knife and sliced it open

on you, and you kneel down as they thump on you


because you have to admit it that we cant know

everything about the zombies and their teeth.

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