The Earthquakes shakes makes the dry bones shiver
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The Earthquakes shakes makes the dry bones shiver
By Steven Kain
As a child I often wondered
If ever there would come a time
In the far away future when
So many people died that the graveyards were full
And we had to keep opening new cemeteries
That would eventually be filled too
All the fields, forest, empty lots would be transformed
Until all dry land had death beneath it
Forever miles and miles gone
Every three feet a headstone would stand forth
So that you couldn’t drive or
Fertilize the land or
Build a house or
Live
Enough room only to share a bunk bed with a zombie
You would learn to live your life around death
No longer able to ignore man’s greatest fear
You would become desensitized
By it, by them, by us
Respect replaced with annoyance
From those taking up your space and time
By Steven Kain
As a child I often wondered
If ever there would come a time
In the far away future when
So many people died that the graveyards were full
And we had to keep opening new cemeteries
That would eventually be filled too
All the fields, forest, empty lots would be transformed
Until all dry land had death beneath it
Forever miles and miles gone
Every three feet a headstone would stand forth
So that you couldn’t drive or
Fertilize the land or
Build a house or
Live
Enough room only to share a bunk bed with a zombie
You would learn to live your life around death
No longer able to ignore man’s greatest fear
You would become desensitized
By it, by them, by us
Respect replaced with annoyance
From those taking up your space and time
Get over here!
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This is awesome!
Very well written ...great thoughts and description
I can relate...
love the title too!
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2. A composition in verse rather than in prose.
3. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
4. A creation, object, or experience having beauty suggestive of poetry.
It's extremely lucky that bodies do decompose
it's also lucky that bodies can be BURNED and turned to ash
it's lucky that we don't really have to keep thinking about the dead!!
it's fortunate that real estate prices have risen greatly so
the idea of reserving land in a city for graves isn't appealing!
it's convenient that zombie movies have made people more familiar with and less afraid of zombies.