Once upon a time the dead kept
coming back in some countries
as the dreaded undead deads,
but thank God they had curatives:
Iron stakes in their hearts.
Sickles placed across their throats.
Padlocks on their feet and toes.
Their bodies buried face down.
Stones to weigh the bodies down.
Stones placed inside their mouths.
Sure these curatives were foolish,
silly superstitions, but in the defense
of them, none of those cured deads
ever came back as vampiric undeads.
Bob Boyd