Tuesday, July 16, 2024

BAD DREAM

One by one, but soon
in multiplying 
throngs,

our words 
grab experiences, 
hold them down, 

crack them wide
open, and feast upon their 
contents. 

No one had told us 
they were so strong.

Yet we fail 
to connect this 

to the zombie 
apocalypse we'd 
read about; 

so we go right 
on talking, doomed, 

like nothing's 
even wrong.