Day 2: The Written Word
Below is a poem. Nothing-complicated just words from an ancient past that once had meaning. Words that I kept near me while writing late at night. Poem post zombie-bite and mid-transformation come out weird and don't make much sense:
Example of shitty post zombie-bite poem:
Uneventful by The Geek Zombie
Drag, thud.
Draaaaag, sniff, thud.
Draaaaag, breath out, finish dragging, thud.
Draaaaag, thud, whine.
Huh?
Honk, Honk, honk, bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeew-ip, eeeeh, eeeeh, eeeh.
Drag, Thud, Drag, Thud, Drag Thud, Drag, Thud....
eeeeh, eeeeh, eeeh.
Drag, Thud, Drag, Thud, Drag Thud, Drag, Thud....
Brai.....stop.
sniff-breath out, groan.
Drag, thud.
Draaaaag, sniff, thud.
voice: "zombie cat?"
Groan.
voice: "damn-it."
Groan. Groan, sad face, sniff, and wave hand in distain.
Drag, thud.
Draaaaag, sniff, thud.
Draaaaag, breath out, finish dragging, thud.
See, terrible. It doesn't make any sense at all. It just sits there being confusing and annoying. Plus, who talks to a zombie anyway. It is sad isn't it. That once a brain starts to go it really goes. I have to save some piece of me, some part that isn't constantly thinking about what you would look like torn open. My stomach turns thinking about it, and I don't know if the turning sound is a good thing or a bad thing.
Which isn't to say that it is a bad thing, I mean have you ever imagined...
No, writing and posting. Writing and posting. Writing and posting, Writing and posting. Post.
Right, post about what. Reading up. Oh, yeah poetry pre-zombie-bite, that is better to prove point. Right, good. Posting. Copying from archive and posting.
Example of Poem Pre-Zombie-Bite
The Reply
Excuse me?
Can you answer a question for this we?
Our generation may have its controversies but what is this complacent aftershock?
Will it reverberate for long?
Will it stew across decades?
He told me: change comes with tension.
She said, “Modern contemporaries had WWII,
Segregation, and a multitude of deaths…
Innocently murdered by thoughts of indignation.”
I asked, “who will we blame?”
“Death comes in many colors,” they said.
“We have lost many brothers,
Where were you when terror filled this land?”
I wondered, later, “it was you that held my hand?
Or let it go?”
Tell me, where will we go from here?
To conventions of controversy
Or to Bomb shelters full of fears and uncertainty?
How will this new generation of writers tell their stories?
What is it that makes you have all the glories?
Since all you gave me was a fallen iconic image of ash-covered hate.
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