Magpie Tales 82: White Zombie

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Awoke laughing at the sight
either that, or risk losing sanity,
because you were dead
the mirror held over your mouth
was unfogged, we all saw it
yet should have known
you would come back
memories like you, well,
they don't stay put, do they,
bad pennies to broken hearts
someone we wished to stay there,
in the sepulcher of lost life
but you were always good
too good, at digging your
way back out to daylight
wrinkled, unstained, voracious