Jessica Myers
The Basement of the Berliner Dom

is filled with coffins,

a tomb for the royalty of Prussia.

 

My brain, museum numb,

is waiting for these dead relics to come alive.

 

I envision bone-crunched hands

that reach out to touch my face.

 

I think their fingers will disintegrate in the crypt air,

before they reach the smooth skin of my face.

 

In the museum store,

I imagine a fine dust settling on glossy history books.

I think,

Those pages can’t know the real story.

 

JESSICA MYERS is the editor-in-chief of No Teeth. She holds an MFA in creative writing and has been published in Superficial Flesh and several bathroom stalls throughout the country. She believes the rise of the zombies will happen any minute. Beware.

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