The Curse of the Zombie Comic

Darkness fell over the town, and through the alcoholic haze the tavern owner did announce,
On the morrow a jester would arrive to spread comedic wit far and very wide
To ridicule all who pass, and play songs a plenty on its baleful guitar
or so the story goes.
Fear and trepidation suffused it way though the friends, the heroes of this tale
They sat at the tavern window now, but the drink had dulled their senses
The fore-shadowing of this doom all too soon unremembered.
Merry they made throughout evening till the cold damp street beckoned forth.
The warning forgot they sang and danced out into the night.

The evening was upon them again and warnings lost or ignored they once more returned to the tavern.
And there it was, the Zombie comic, sitting, eyes dull surveying the crowd,
The old and feeble of mind had quickly succumb to this jester's evil trance,
But our heroes sat there waiting, planning what to do,
To pass this hideous form and not to suffer that malignant curse endured by the frail,

After a time the zombie rested absorbing the power he had gained to return once more with attacks renewed.
In this time our heroes passed out into the garden to smoke and derive strength and fortitude,
Then again the comic returned, the drab rhythm of the sinister guitar entwining and luring even more.
Ale helped some to escape over the wall and dance into the night, free.
But our heroes stayed to plan a revenge.

A weakness was found, the plan was formed to allow them to defeat the fiend.
Overwhelm the beast with comic gifts was it, simple and devastating if only the fiend could see,
With the plan in action the fiend no longer knew how to cope,
Its victims should run and hide from the foul retorts not to invite and enjoy its sneering reposts
With the weapons of ribbons and gaily held hands the monster retreated weakened.
Preying elsewhere, a place without such valiant heroes
Leaving only placards of his evil presence, he left, but forever would be too much to hope,
But what of the old and mentally infirm?
Will the Zombie return to claim them for his own?
Time will tell, but our heroes are ready fight whenever it should happen.