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(In the 80's, Pueblo, Colorado, poets Kyle Laws and Tony Moffeit played cemetery zombies in a Pueblo-directed, written and filmed horror movie, "Curse of the Blue Lights". They and Wrulf Gunkl VonGlashaus agreed to write poems, either entitled with or containing the line: "I was a zombie in the curse of the blues lights”.) I was a zombie in the curse of the blue lights, phosphorescent dream, And zombie, I found, is something you'd better do before you cross over, people won't recognize you, you won't look the same if you wait until too long after you're gone, and zombie's what happens when your brain short-circuits on a frenzied emptiness of mind staring out into the night through your glassy eyes, the air both suffocating and liberating, You exist, are there, yet not, intensely exhibitionistic, The stars look like billions of voyeuristic eyes bulging and winking with lurid fascination, owls crouch on barren branches overhead, their eyes rolling and twisting, measuring an unsteady rhythm as they follow your lurching reel through time narcissistically mirroring itself in endless loops without apology, You're a zombie in the curse of the blue lights, impossible to tell if you, the night, time, the stars and very air - beginning to stir - are warped, the tombstones looking like unusually large pebbles on the sands of a foreign, yet familiar sea, like abnormally high speed bumps in the road to where you know not, as the wind begins prayer in a low howl above which the owls begin a late-night requiem: "Hoo, hoo, hoo-o-o!" until you groan: "You, you, you - well, actually, it's me, me, me!" groaning, lurching, reeling until you collapse with a vague knowledge and a smile on your face, rising soon to the dance, again, since the night stretches before you, the stars still winking and beckoning you to lean into the reeling minuet until the dawn of realizing you are a zombie in the curse of the blue lights and the cemetery of your own mind... no drug in the world could be more effective...
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