MEDITATION ON THORNTON DIAL’S BLOOD AND MEAT: SURVIVAL FOR THE WORLD

 

 

People clamor for food

and desperately clash

amongst each other

like zombies and human trash

climbing over one another

in a World War Z nightmare

 

The omnivore calls the bluff

for both herbivore and carnivore

don’t call the game survival

as the stakes are for real

 

humanoid forms once living souls

frantically clinging to scraps

the promise of a new world

not fully vanquished

but struggling to breathe

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

meditation on an underappreciated modern American artist:  Thornton Dial

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