Frankenzombies

They came together with all their pieces
and for one night they made a whole
moving, walking, talking, touch it if you dare
Frankenzombie that even had a soul
The parts had been collected--
an excellent brain, the perfect hair, sturdy ankles--
all throughout the life
So the two scientists embarked on one ambitious experiment
under the cover of the night
Swen together with threads of sand
their monster roamed the city
It giggled and held the hands of strangers
of whom it thought were pretty
Even wrapped it's stitched fingers around their hearts
but with the dawn,
the monster fell apart

Just like Cinderella's dreams
evaporated into a pumpkin
the girl scientist had no interest
in trying to experiment again
Yet the boy scientist was undeterred
and sad she would not build another
So the girl told him the truth,
"Frankenzombies cannot last forever
even the instruments said THE END when it was laying on the slab
and how lucky we were to have been successful
that one night in the lab.
In fact, I'm not even a scientist," the girl softly continued,
"I only wanted to see...
if the parts we put together
could make a real-life Frankenzombie."
"But we did!" Cried the boy scientist
who didn't understand,
"Maybe when we try again
we'll use cotton thread instead of sand..."
And as he pleaded the girl disappeared, right before his eyes
and all that was left of her was a pair of borrowed thighs.