Thursday, December 2, 2010

1/30 You never forget your first. Zombie.

It had to be him,
The first one I saw.
How was I to know Matt Richards wasn't joking?
He's always making with the jokes
And the sarcasm
And the non-sequiturs.
Yet another stunt, I was sure.
Killing Elmo, berating Sarah Palin, and impersonating God incarnate...
Certainly this was just another excuse
To write another line about ribcages.
He's always been pale and bony
Never had much of an affinity for shoes

The bloody drool was new, though.
True to form, he seemed not to notice such trivial things.
They say your hair and fingernails continue to grow for several months
It was rather hard to tell.

I had never seen him eat cottage cheese before.
Ketchup packets, yes, but never cottage cheese.
It was when I asked him whether he was vegan or just vegetarian that it occurred to me
That most people don't eat their cottage cheese and ketchup out of a human skull.
"Great costume.
What's with the gaping bite wound on your arm, though?
You really ought to have that looked at."

They walk much mor

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