Sunday 31 October 2021

Poem: 'THAT'S ALL FOLKS!'

 



THAT’S ALL FOLKS! 


George A Romero’s zombies eat your brains, 
don’t that just gross you out? 
the Walking Dead with dead eyes and 
undead fingers chomp on your entrails, 
Saw and the Chainsaw Massacres 
scare the living shit outta me, 
and Chucky, I hate that evil little guy, 
I’ve watched Alien face-huggers 
bust outta your chest in sprays of gut, 
Predators and Terminators that just won’t stop, 
Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi 
and all those other creepy old guys still bite 
on you in that Twilight Zone of terrors… 
but I’ll tell you… 
the worst horror of them all 
is that one day you’re gonna wake up 
and find yourself in a 
Care Home that just don’t care, 
dripping and dribbling incontinent 
into your colostomy bag, 
and you’ve forgotten your kid’s names 
and your grandchildren, 
you look into the mirror 
and you don’t even recognize the 
old guy drooling back at you, 
that’s the real horror…



From my book:
'TWEAK VISION: THE WORD-PLAY SOLUTION 
TO MODERN ANGST CONFUSION'
(Alien Buddha Press, USA, March 2018)









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