Poem: "Réanimation Medicale"

[jjhunter]

Posted on behalf of David Kopaska-Merkel

Ideomancer, 2007

Réanimation Medicale

The government of Haiti,
desperate for investment dollars,
challenged the world's medical establishment
to rediscover the lost art of zombie making.

The applications of zombies in the modern
economy were obvious,
if distasteful. With visions of outsourcing
dancing in their heads,
six multinational corporations
put up the prize money -- no strings attached.

The US was not even in the running.
Under pressure from religious extremists,
Congress quickly outlawed all post-life research on humans.
The Chinese also were disadvantaged -- zombies,
an invention of the decadent West,
could not exist.
In the end, the French were the first to succeed.
Réanimation Medicale had spent two years in Haiti.
The team, led by Dr. Irbah Amal,
sought shamans who worked the old-fashioned way.
They finally found one who talked the talk,
a beaded expatriate from the Middle East --
but she knew nothing.

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