Zombies are hot this year;
The Walking Dead
is a runaway hit for AMC;
major cities around the country
hold zombie crawls. 

Sociologists theorize
it's an expression of 
our national tendancy
toward mindless, insatiable consumerism.
To openly acknowledge this
is to threaten the glue holding America together.
After all, the answer to a terrorist attack is,
"Go shopping."

So, as often happens,
we give voice to truth poetically,
sideways,
through the arts.
The image?
Staggering, soulless, walking dead,
mindlessly feeding on the brains of the living,
never, ever sated. 

Is that what we've become?

How interesting that the rise in Zombie-mania
coincides with the occupation of Wall Street.

Kinda creepy, don't ya think?

Happy Halloween!

Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.