la luz
hard to explain and harder still to remember
as i watched the opening to the mid-season stunner
walking dead
three things happened simultaneously
the cat screeched
the character on tv screamed
and the light flickered
not that i'm superstitious
it was the lamp flickering that threw me
like i was a character on one of those ghost shows
harbingers of a haunting
let it pass i told myself
and turned out the light
then in the middle of the show
a shadow larger than a cat
bigger even than a man
swept the top of the wall with the tv set
that gave me pause
because there were no lights on to cast a shadow
trained in the arts of the rational
it must be my own neurochemical makeup
how i woke to the blues
been blue all day
but for a long walk with anna and nick
and the attempt to keep the blues at bay
2 Comments:
I am still enjoying 'walking dead'...a friend of mine said he felt it was the best written zombie plot yet...
http://zombiepoetry.com/ is live, let us know what you think as we move forward with little rigor setting in...
thank you re for the poetry of the morti viventi.
i agree about the walking dead. i've read much criticism from the horror community about the show. some liken it to a soap opera with the living dead. that's what i dig about it. finally a drama about what and how people survive, cope and freak out about at the end of civilization. there are some drawbacks for the show, such as last night's telegraphed climax. yet i loved it. what i especially dig are those very brief intros about life as it was going to pot, such as the show that started when shane and lori were stuck in traffic waiting to get to atlanta, then they see the helicopters fly overhead and hear the bombs. god! i watched that seen several times!
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