31st October 2026

 

crisp air

the street oddly scented

patchouli

© Rachel Green October 2026

A Post-Christian Utopia

when the dead rose

they didn't shamble and stagger

and look for the living to satiate a hunger

they couldn't put a name against;

they formed orderly queues outside the church

and at the Salvation Army building

and asked "Is this the Resurrection?

Are we going to Heaven soon?"

and all the government could do

was treat them as Asylum Seekers

for the land of the Dead

and issue temporary passports and 

put their names on reanimation certificates.

The next election had a new platform altogether

and was a 'look after' or 'destroy' coalition,

but the surprising outcome was the Ultra-Right

who ran with the slogan 'Ultra for Unlife'

and got in by a landslide until the economy crashed

because the Undead could work Unpaid

and the living all went to Hell.

© Rachel Green October 2026