Cartoon Vampires in the Hallway of the Old Endicott Building

Vampires hang upside
down
in dark corners of the hallway,
cartoons with
bad breath. The hallway
stretches in yellow perspective
from the deli to abandoned
store fronts
with mirror windows.

We know that ghouls masturbate
each other behind the windows

and birth defects and insanity
kiss and fuck.

Old civil servants sit at
cracked Formica tables
and eat
taco salad. Their faces are
reflected in mirror windows
and in
undead
cartoon eyes.

— Norman J. Olson