by Brian John Mitchell
It’s almost dusk & the zombies are already starting
to come out as we’re parking the car. We walk over to the building where
the rave’s supposed to be & I take two hits of acid. The building’s
three stories tall & they have snipers in riot gear on the roof to
peg zombies so they can’t over take the place. We knock on the steel door
& the tall skinny door man who has a bunch of piercings on an otherwise
flawless face & quarter of an inch long black hair opens the door saying,
"You’re just in time, we’re about to bolt the door down til dawn." We give
him our five dollars & walk up the stairs to the third floor where
the rave is. It’s already packed & people are dancing (it really annoys
me when I’m early & everybody’s staring at me, especially when I’m
on acid & it’s really kicking in now & I feel quite blurry &
happy). They have cool lights, probably a thousand dollars worth. I’m already
in the crowd & moving to the beat. They’re playing trance music &
it’s almost as spacey as my mind is starting to get. I’m dancing in a circle
of strangers & this guy offers me a piece of ex-gum & I take it
& it’s making me even more fucked up than I was. I’m glad the other
dancers are so close so I don’t have room to fall & my dance is becoming
more & more of an attempt to simply stay on my feet. I go to the bar
& I realize I don’t have any money, but this girl who likes my haircut
buys me a drink. I’m about to go back into the crowd when I see it happen.
A tall boy with a clean shaven head is biting into the forehead of an asian
girl. He probably died of a drug overdose & now there are zombies right
here inside & my back is starting to hurt, probably because of strychnine.
I don’t know what to do, so I tell the bartender & she hops over the
bar with some huge hand gun bigger than her forearm & goes into the
crowd & I hear four shots & no one really seems to have stopped
dancing & the song "Who Carez Who’z Dead?" fades in over the previous
one.