Brochures on the islands extol
vacations on tropic atoll
Though all mention beaches
not one of them teaches
that zombies at midnight will stroll
A nurse travels to a Caribbean island in I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943). Stay tuned for more zombies as we venture into Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur territory in the Countdown to Halloween.
A zombie don't walk, he just shuffles
ReplyDeletelike snouts on a pig hunting truffles
No fashion sense has he
No glamorous, snazzy
tuxedos with shirts bearing ruffles
At passersby zombies will lunge
ReplyDeleteand into their grey matter plunge
Though brains are their passion
they once were in fashion
The 'look' they created was grunge
A zombie, quite by acci-dent,
ReplyDeletewas almost our next presi-dent
He had to resign
because of a sign
that brain matter was evi-dent
The tea party members, it's said
ReplyDeletedon't like where we're all being lead
It's not that they're dumb
their brains are just numb
from following Reagan, who's dead
L, as they say, OL.
ReplyDeleteI meant "led", of course. I think I ate too many lead paint chips as a child.
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