or down to the cellar.
Don’t take your clothes off
or investigate the strange noise
at the end of the hall.
Don’t count on the phone working
(any phone)
or the car in the driveway.
Never go to sleep,
even if you make it to sunrise.
Never feel safe,
even with a knife in his chest.
He’s not dead,
just waiting.
Poem by Allison Goldstein
I love horror movies. Is that obvious? I also love writing poems about horror movies, including “If You Want to Live”, which offers some pertinent advice to anyone who happens to find themselves trapped in a horror film. This is definitely a condensed list, so what would you tell someone to help them try to survive a horror movie?
Allison Goldstein 
[…] it into the final book. I wrote three of these poems (that I still really like), including “If You Want to Live” as writing exercises to get into the themes and tropes of horror […]
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