Zombie Apocalypse

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

We’re halfway through the month.  Anyone have nominations for the Dumb Bastard Award?  I dropped a jar of wrinkle crème on my foot and broke a toe, which puts me in the running but I’ve got a better one.

Question of the Week:  Who or what was Tammany Hall?  (Hint—not some girl you knew in high school)

Zombies are IT these days.  They’ve surpassed vampires, who now come out in the daylight wearing designer sunglasses and Grateful Dead tee shirts.

Personally, I don’t like zombies.  They’re too “un”—unattractive, unamusing and unintelligent.  There has never been a “hot” zombie or mad scientist among them.  They just shuffle around, breathing heavily, while terrifying or revolting everyone.

The Internet is abuzz with banter about a Zombie Apocalypse so I’ve decided to get on the bandwagon.  Here’s my take?

Zombie Apocalypse©

(A Road to a Past that Never Was)

FMHorner

The Zombie Apocalypse

has arrived

it’s been building for years

have you noticed?

mindless people

choosing candidates

by the color of a tie

and a 1950s hairdo

voting against

pants suits

gender, race

or sexual orientation

remember Einstein’s

wild and crazy hair?

or Churchill’s

cigar?

non-starters in today’s

appearance-driven climate

 

once again, the vacuous hordes

heed the call of hate

shuffling off

to the ballot box

to toe the party line

because that’s the way it’s done

no thought of consequences

or personal needs

automatons, entrapped by fear

of all that’s different

for whom dumb is in,

intelligence an abomination

knowing only the messages

of their leaders

these zombies follow the pipers

over a cliff to a past that never was