Description Written by Jason Sturner (www.jasonsturner.blogspot.com). Performed by voice over talent Georgia Delis (www.voiceoveruniverse.com/profile/GeorgiaDelis). FREE copies of the book in which this poem appears can be obtained by visiting Sturner's blogspot. For the full text of this poem, see Comments below.
by Jason Sturner
Everyone is dead.
Slumped against steering wheels,
on the floors of kitchens and bedrooms,
face down in swimming pools.
Bodies litter the malls,
the halls of prestigious universities,
they're in hospitals and sports bars,
at desks in corporate offices.
In the center of the oval office
lays the body of our president,
maggots crawl out
from beneath her eyelids.
The rats beneath the streets
lift their heads and twitch their noses.
Vultures fly off trees
into waves of decay.
Remnants of humanity crumble,
are buried, eroded and grown over.
We are dust and fossils; we are history.
The planet is lush and productive.
Out in an unnamed ocean
a new breed of dolphin is born,
its flippers more like modified claws.
One day, it will use them to grasp the shoreline.