The zombies arrived at dawn.
My neighbors still slept.
That day they awoke undead.
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My family of warriors
was one of the last
These are the tales of our doom.
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My mother threw a hand grenade.
The zombie blew up,
but its blood got in her mouth.
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Killing zombies with shotguns,
my arm was bitten,
so, weeping, I hacked it off.
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Later, I saw my mother,
dead-eyed and bloody,
and slit my wrist in despair.
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Nora burned out the stairway.
Zombies kept creeping
but fell into the basement.
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Fearing the pit of zombies,
Nora stayed upstairs.
Eventually, she starved.
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My dad was the most clever.
He fled to the coast
and began to build a boat.
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One day, wading through the driftwood
he found a U-boat
from Russia, full of corpses.
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Not as dead as they had seemed,
the Kremlin zombies
leapt at him and ate his brains.
