Geeky Poetry: Week 1 (a second helping)

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The nutritional value of brains

stooped behind a guarded wall
I watch the world devoured
and consider the nutritional value
and taste of brains
modified by the stuff
packed inside

that kid I’m watching there:
his head ripped off
had brains so sweet
(lobes of confectioners sugar)
filled with cartoons or video games
Nothing good is contained inside

so the undead search on
with his saccharine taste
dripping from their lips

my voyeuristic glances
unearth a fantasy draft interrupted
by flesh-eating hordes
in search of tonight’s fix
They end up disappointed
by lack of sustenance and flavor

suddenly it dawns on me
that the apocalypse will
be short-lived
since those brains filled
with Mieville and Le Guin
number few among the living

Far more are the brains
filled with rubbish
and artificial sweetener
They will never sustain a
starving mass plagued
with decomposition

so I plan to wait it out
For if zombies survive
on the nutritional value of brains
it won’t be long before they
expire of malnutrition