Nightmare Poetry

So insistent were the South on slaves

That war broke out across the waves

From afar we watched them fight the north

But this time was different, of ‘corth’

Because in New Orleans they knew what to do

They raised an army using voodoo

The zombie legion shambles out

And puts both armies to rout.

But then one bright spark did say

‘There has to be another way,

You could still have slaves with no affray.”

The human slaves were all released

Replaced by undead lumbering beasts.

The civil war was short but no less expensive

For the South bought the zombies though apprehensive

They had all the slaves they needed but histories lessons went unheeded.

For decades later there broke out more fights,

With liberals campaigning for zombie rights.

(As is only proper!)