...
A friend’s body, perhaps intimate and close,
Will become mortal danger to us,
Flesh will bring about death
Even without a carnal sin.
Hope will take an armed form
And in confusion kill both
The living dead and the feeble life;
Technology will strengthen the law.
Things that we seem to know and cherish
Will all be as true as second-hand smoke.
The zombie cannot be true — it is only real
As death alone can be.
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Oct 2014