Background Information

There’s a lot going on in

“the”

zombie apocalypse.

But wouldn’t she recognize

that her mother

was a zombie?

I mean zombies

are a thing.

The last thing she did

was point

to one corner of the ceiling

with a horrified stare.

The nurse called this “a seizure.”

As if words

drained experience

of content and continued

to accumulate.

As if words

were sealed containers

stored for safe keeping.

The background

is everything

that, for now,

can be safely

ignored