Still dark at 6am

the school bus

comes around the corner

it's brakes emit an

eerie screeching sound

in the night

 

kids stand in dark shadows

waiting to get on

the street corner is their graveyard

where they come to catch the bus

they stumble aboard

still half-asleep

 

they are Zombies

going through the motions

by habit

by rote

they do not know where they are

they do not care

their existence only defined

by back packs and cell phones

 

they awake in school

as the bell rings and class begins

the Zombies open their eyes

still in a twilight zone

they slowly return to the living

 

they will eventually

become human again

when the cafeteria opens at noon

 

Hamburgers are the favorite food

of Zombies.