[HoE] a poem

[zombi bobb <zombi_bobb@yahoo.com>]

I wrote a poem for my poetry class and I figured you
guys would appreciate it more.


Meat Locker

Soon after humanity died away
and the world was left to me
I heard the most unexpected thing
as I cut people out of old newspapers.

Thud, Thud, Thud

It was coming from the meat locker,
the one I was in two days ago
looking for food and drink
but now it was empty, or should have been.

Thud, Thud, Thud

As I got closer the pounding got heavier.
It got so bad I could see the door tremble on its
hinges.
So I quickly padlocked it and ran upstairs
and didn't go in the basement again.

Thud, Thud, Thud

For a week it continued.
The sound of flesh thumping on metal
in it's rhythmic, steady pattern.
Then one afternoon it stopped.

Thud, Thud, ----

I stood at the top of the stairs
listening for sound for ten minutes
nothing, but what if it broke free?
I locked the basement door and boarded it up.

Thud, Thud, Thud

It began as I surfed across waves of tv static.
The unenthusiastic pounding was at my basement door.
So I got a gun and watched it,
waiting for it to free itself.

Thud, Thud, Thud

Three days of the damned noise
and not a wink of sleep.
So I went to bed and locked the door,
in case it broke loose in my slumber.

Thud, Thud, Thud

I was awakened by banging
at my bedroom door,
and there was only one place left to hide.
The closet.

Thud, Thud, Thud

I plunged myself into the small storage space
and closed the door behind me.
As I clicked the lock it began,
and the banging sounded like the nailing of a coffin.

Thud, Thud, Thud

                Jim Burzelic

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