[Realpoetik] GRAHAM FOUST

[RealPoetik Magazine]

POEM CALLED *NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD AND ZOMBIES*

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or *Dawn of the Dead and Zombies*—I don’t care.

“Department of Redundancy Department,”



I say in my most cheerful bitter phone voice,

though I’m not at work and my Blackberry’s off.



I lie—and it lays—on the couch, both of us

oddly perfect, like a pinball and a cloud.



I find I’m to bed on the late side these days

(television test patterns having vanished)



but I could always get there earlier

were there reason enough—say, *one*—to do so.



You say “tomato”; I say “Don’t tase me, bro!”

Have I got an obituary for me:



b. 1970; d. 19-something;

lives in California with his family.





*Graham Foust* lives in Oakland and works at Saint Mary's College of
California.  His most recent book is *A Mouth in California* (Flood
Editions, 2009).

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