🧟♂️🛢️Zombie Story
Sometime late 1990s, maybe ‘99
The dead came back, but all seemed fine
Yet every day from the ground more and more zombies arose
You’d think there’d be more mounting concern, but no–
And though some know this started a century and some change earlier in time
For our sake let’s just say– sometime in ‘99.
As the milky hoard kept crawling out of the aughts and the earth swallowed
I joined a coalition of the living fighting back that been followed
This horror story from the start, raising alarms they'd been warning
About the rate of exponential zombie fossil fueled warming
Unleashing interconnected curses of grounding and airful pain
Risking both what’s for dinner and our babies’ brains.
Now I help fight back by spreading the word of the folks who’ve already said
Zombies are better off resting, better off dead
How we’d be better off keeping fossils fuels, like zombies-- in the ground
And now we’d better better-off a better world with what’s rising all around
All of which we really should have learned from Frankenstein
To raise a living future with not from the earth, can’t wait until next ‘99.
— Adam Powers