DOUBLE FEATURE
The Mummy’s Curse
After the pandemic, there are Help Wanted
signs everywhere.
The mummy decides that isolating for centuries
is long enough.
Luckily it’s Halloween when he applies for a job
delivering pizza.
Biking through the streets with a hot Florentine
pie, yards of linen unravel behind him.
People on the avenue wave. Good-natured
drivers honk.
He zips through traffic, climbs the stairs
to Apartment 10B.
Poses with a mom dressed like Nefertiti,
tip money slipping out of his crumbling hand.
Dracula’s Wives
They sleep all day, then fix each other’s hair
when the sun goes down.
It’s an odd life, but better than some clodhopper’s beery breath and a dozen
brats running wild.
The count is like most husbands, always thinking about a juicier girl.
Tonight while he entertains
Doctor Harker from Exeter and his neglected fiancé
with the peaches-and-cream neck,
Dracula’s wives roam the village, trying the doors,
whispering, “You will never want for love again.”
They tease the burgermeister who peeks and has to
be tied down so he doesn’t destroy himself.
They beckon to his wife who sees three girls she used to milk goats with but
look at them now!
What a life in flattering dresses. Castle, husband
in a tuxedo, cape with scarlet lining.
