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Mike Berger, PhD
Haiti is a dark foreboding place.
Lush jungle is tangled with vines
and snakes. I was invited to a
ceremony of the walking dead
in the middle of the jungle.
Through the thick foliage I could hear
the drums. In a clearing was a bon
fire and dancing people. The drums
pounded bizarre rhythms and the
people did a frenetic dance. Sweaty
body is contorted into bizarre shapes.
The intensity of the drums grew;
dancing became a frenzy. Then nothing!
An eerie silence settled over the place.
The bonfire flared sending dark shadows
everywhere. The people fell to the ground
and began to moan.
A skeletal arm pierced the soil and a
grave was opened out came a hideous
creature; a skeleton with hanging rotten
flash. It stunk! The people’s moans
stopped as it walked by. It stopped three
feet in front of me; it stare from its sunken
eyesockets. I shook to my toes and my
stomach was in my throat.
It spoke with a raspy whispering voice, “I’ve
been in that hole for a long time. Do you
have a cigarette?”
