“SARS Wars” (Thai: ขุนกระบี่ผีระบาด or Khun krabii hiiroh, also subtitled Bangkok Zombie Crisis) is a 2004 Thai horror-comedy film directed and co-written by Taweewat Wantha.
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“We loves a good story retold many times
Cause we always knows where we are
And what we should feel, so tell it again
And again and again and make us pay.”
Jerry Lee Lewis, that rockabilly blues
Firebrand from Hell, lost his flaming coiffure,
Flung by a wicked witch’s monkey
Into the cowardly lion’s mouth
And like Athena born of Zeus
During a very bad migraine
Before he could swallow her mother
To prevent Metis giving birth,
Chewbacca roared out of a Hollywood brain,
An indigestible hair-ball warrior –
Or so I was told by a talking roach
At a bikers’ bar for the local trans.
Your myth is as good as mine.
Stargazers, ready to serve the Empire
In the next colonial war, lined up
For miles around the recruiting stations,
Cineplexes, those soft targets for
Ideological converts to the spun-off

Video games from the franchise,
Trained to arm and fire drones
From the comfort of their homes,
Heavy metal music backing up
Their own Velcro tomahawk muscles
As they ramp and roar, jingoistic
Jingles
chewed inside Chewy’s massive
Jaws before he gnarls down another groan
At Jar-Jar’s bling,
extinct as African
Lions or transgendered gazelles.
[Disposable Poem January 2, 2016]
Dr. Mike