Part 30 (Part A and B)

(I actually thought this year I would make it dead on 30 poems as i am sure you would but the finale poem below became apparent it would be two short poems rather than one.

Thanks for reading and see you next year for Ghost Story V. The link shall be here http://ghoststoryv.blogspot.co.uk/ and somepoint on Monday 1st May - an complete audio transcript shall appear on https://andyn.bandcamp.com/)

Thirty

(A)

‘He’s here, isn’t they?’ Brooks said.

The Man in Black nodded

Coughing over and over

‘Then it’s time isn’t it?’

Brooks spat out his cheeseburger

And cocked his pistol smiling responded

‘Let’s join the party then, shall we?’

(B)

And on the other side

Of the venue,

The Supernatural Unit

Waited and watched

Waited and watched. 

Part 29

(Yes. An old friend returns)

Twenty-Nine 

And from out of nowhere
In the mist 
Stood there hundreds of them.

Hundreds and hundreds.

All armed to the teeth.

All dead. 

Some recently dead 
With skin as pale as teeth.

Others with faces little more
Than skeletons barely standing. 

‘Who are they?’ Joe said. 

‘War’ Mandrake laughed 
Coughing blood
‘A big fucking war’

All lead by Andy. 

Yep me. 

Part 28

(Yep. My birthday and I'm still going strong)

Twenty-Eight

After the death of the soldiers

The howling increased

Across the moonlight

Shattering the windows

Of the deserted bars,

And the burnt out buses

Before burying itself in the tunnel

At the edge of the sealed out area,

Distorting the mist

Into a broken red

Leaving Mandrake,

Joe,

Cherry

Stood there alone

As the vampires

Slowly started to hover around them

‘We’re doomed’ Joe whispered

‘Nope’ Mandrake smiled

And stuck his fingers in his mouth

And whistled. 

Part 27

( A short piece but a important one today)

Twenty-Seven

‘You knew they had no chance’

Michelle spat on the floor

‘And who would have listened to me?’

Mandrake stared at her

‘Just because you’re dead doesn’t

Give you executive powers’

‘It does now’

She looked at the Vampires

Stepping out of the building.

Towards them. 

Part 26

(Part 26 is back to the gore at the beginning of the story.)

Twenty-Six

Ripped into pieces

Of course the government soldiers

Didn’t stand a chance

When the doors opened again.

Didn’t stand a chance

No matter what kind of bullets

They used.

Whether heavy duty

Or something they stole

From that spaceship crash

Ten years ago.

Whether silver which they had used

For slaying that werewolf

In the Picc Vic Project

(Hushed up of course).

They sprayed their bullets

Like confetti

Into the swarm of the undead

Which followed Mandrake

And the rest out

And then instead of running

Carried on shooting

And shooting

Until it was too late

And twenty more souls

Entered the afterlife. 

Part 25

(Cherry again today)

Twenty-Five

Diving past the pair of them

Cherry leap towards the door

Like a propeller taking down

The door screaming

‘They’re chasing us,

They’re chasing us

Don’t shoot,

Don’t shoot’

And much to all of their surprises

They didn’t shoot them

Signalling for the them

To get behind them

Clearly not recognising Mandrake.

Not that it mattered.

Part 24

(They open fire)

Twenty-Four

Pinned down by the bullets

Which burst through the doors

As soon as Michelle left

Mandrake started loading

His fist like pistol again

Counting seconds

Until they paused

Thinking they must be dead

Before making his next move

‘Aren’t those guys on our side?’

Joe asked shocked

‘The only person on my side

Is me’

Mandrake snarled.