

Your first burst: Utility Nozzle
Her proud brow of encumbrance.
Next, mincing fish sticks into forbidden
Not to mention odiferous resonance: Beano
The hard line in the grocery section, post-elderly
The stare of greening faces like a sudden shore
From a fog: deadpan. A marbling of veins
Sticking screws and weeds. Bright flash
Lead beads and tweed geezers, shows
Us how to do. Wing-nut gallery
Despicable plastic glass fronts and frame
Fountains with teeth, shop suck,
Crimp this.
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The zombies arrive at the screening of your soul
Don’t look, the eggs are unhinging
with delight even as the antennae appear
Edge-shadowed from under the bunker.
In the suits of funeral participants, smudge dark
and dried up stiff around the stains, these fashions
they hedge the century by shaving more ice
into the ages by singing. These zombies are not
politely educated but they are critics, ultimately
Banging arrows into merchant dreams
with a thwock-thwock one two, clearing out helmets
and police cars just as fast as a wooly mammoth
strips out the safe harbor of the strip mall
by laying tread all down the city’s spine.
In the theater of the movie of your soul,
you are quaintly chewing on a drinking straw
as the bombing goes on, making you nervous.
Now the zombies are brewing coffee
with your brains but you have scripted a long
tunnel of escape and terror, so long
it stretches into infinity before caving in
but the zombies don’t stop squeezing through.
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.