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Ryan J., performing his poem “Zombies in the Dark”.
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one of these days someone’s gonna
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around and give me a movie deal and now
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I make a movie about time-traveling
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zombies which yes is as wild as it
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sounds these zombies will not eat people
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they will not slink down alleyways
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existing aka waiting to do you harm
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these zombies will be revolutionary
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they’ll find joy in their corpse hood
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they’ll time travel and not have to
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worry about whether their dreams are
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realistic or that someone will mistake
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their moans for screaming or their
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laughter for shouting these zombies
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won’t have to think about when and where
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they aren’t welcome or the names people
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might call them a cool monster thug
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black these zombies will find joy in
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their bodies and their graves that
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belong to them and spaces away from
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humans humans humans and I’ll name these
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zombies too to make their existences
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more permanent
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to increase the spaces they occupy and
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I’ll call them brother sister mom dad
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and I’ll call them important love
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foundation and they’ll love each other
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and they’ll love their
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countries and they’ll love their
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languages that belong to them these
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zombies they’ll have every reason to
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keep living because you can’t kill them
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they can’t die again because they’re
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zombies damn it the least they deserve
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is this this movie where they can
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finally be free and maybe the first
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scene can go a little something like
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this Act one Scene one zombie spits
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poems – apocalypse survivors before
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dinner I don’t understand why y’all keep
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screaming running
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I heard Jesus got a round of applause
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when he came back from the dead all I
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want is a cup of brains or maybe a heart
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I don’t understand why that’s too much
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to ask for it’s not like y’all are using
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them anyway please stop asking me how
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I’m dead and still walk amongst you
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please stop telling me that Mozambique
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sit in their graves and wait for someone
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to come and wake them please stop asking
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me how it feels to know that you were
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human and still feel like you don’t
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belong here it’s like wanting to go home
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when you’re already at home besides it
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looks like you already have a few
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zombies amongst you or at least that’s
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how you treat them like dead person
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walking refuse to feed them hearts or
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ears instead only let them eat bullets
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and they wonder how we got here to this
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poem to this stack of bodies in the
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graveyard oh who was i before I died
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I think I was depressed or black I don’t
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know they both sound so similar like
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playing dead or zombie practice thank
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you
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[Applause]
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