“This body may incriminate;   I move that we incinerate.   It’s best that we remove all trace   Of everything that’s taken place.   This dubious experiment,   Whose ending was so violent:   A chemical malign and dread   Able to revive the dead.”      “General, with all due respect   Your reasoning is incorrect   This rash decision must be checked    BURNING THE BODY   We have no way to theorize   What complications may arise   I vehemently disadvise   BURNING THE BODY   If we let the fumes escape    The problems that this may create    Aren’t easy to anticipate   BURNING THE BODY   These chemicals dissolved in rain   Could seep into a thousand graves   And trigger off a zombie plague!”   BURNING THE BODY      “Son, what makes you think you oughta   Disobey a direct order?   It’s my responsibility   To maintain total secrecy.”       Rain   Slashing down   Filling boxes   In the ground   What’s that scrabbling sound?   I don’t like this!      Watching the flames rise   Flinching as hope dies   Stoking the furnace    Ashes to ashes      Now it’s just too fucking late   Cadavers rise consumed with hate   Bodies soaked in strange compounds   The children of the toxic cloud!      Now down by the cemetery   A hideous emergency   Beginnings of catastrophe   BURNING THE BODY   On the freeway drivers panic   Zombies stumble through the traffic   Scent of brain-meat makes them manic   BURNING THE BODY   Now on every radio-station   Bulletins broadcast to the nation   Briefing on the situation   BURNING THE BODY   The whole world is convulsed in flame   And only we can take the blame   We’ve made a terrible mistake   BURNING THE BODY