You’re Not Zombies Just Yet

What keeps stories on their toes,
Supernatural tales and
Tribal ideologies

Included, is the evolved
Plasticity of the beast.
You are that beast. You can change

Your loyalties, and you do.
Your identities remain
Multiple, overlapping,

Opportunistic, and just
Slightly flexible, at least,
All of your lives. You crave teams,

And you crave belonging, but
Your ancestors didn’t thrive
By keeping to just one side

Religiously all their lives.
There’s room, there’s hope for movement,
In evolving virulence.

The stories have to compete
To catch and keep beastly souls
Who still keep tales on their toes.