The Hound of Music

Audience became zombies when movie, Hound played;
movie soundtrack responsible--no serenade.
For a serenade enchants with love paramount
but the Hound held the audience down for the count.

No, they could not get up but instead were brain slain
and, as zombies, sat open-mouthed acting like pain
ran the full of their countenance as spastic grooves--
they displayed wide eyes, drool and mechanical moves.

What a spell from a soundtrack to zombie folks so!
Far beyond Exorcist and that green throaty flow.
And it did not escape ken of the movie staff,
(though at first odd behavior caused many to laugh.)

First an usher with flashlight in aisle did flit
and unnerved narrow bones when he felt zombie spit.
He went down to his knees but then scrambled in scare
making haste on all fours, wetting BVD wear.

As the usher made tracks, all the zombies then stirred
(since the movie had ended and the soundtrack was heard.)
They stood up and with mouths open wide as could be
moved en masse as if they were in great agony.

Cinema manager was at once notified
and when he entered forth all too soon he espied
zombies eyeing him down, and inside he could feel
as if they demonstrated intense human zeal.

Though he did what he could speaking forthright and bold,
any wake up command left the zombies quite cold.
They tried flashlights and foghorns to break zombie trance
yet it had no effect--zombies still did advance.

Thus did manager and staff of Cinema Eight
entertain many ways to make drama abate.
Someone even tried popcorn for zombies agape,
yet the aisles remained an inhuman landscape.

Bony Bill then grabbed Milk Duds behind Baby Ruth
flinging them desperately for the zombies’ sweet tooth.
And then low and behold, because chocolate hath charms,
zombie antics were quelled which then quelled all alarms.

They continue to run Hound but without soundtrack
since they fear it would produce a zombie attack.
Yet to make up for lost sound (and generate cash),
people hear the Crypt Kicker’s old song, Monster Mash.


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Writer’s Cramp
10-26-14