Here, some samples of what you can expect from ZOMBIE HAIKU:
Little old ladies
speed away in their wheelchairs,
frightened meals on wheels.
Wheelchair pile-up!
Five old women on the ground,
helpless as babies.
That's from an episode where our zombie poet is in nursing home. From a bit later, here's this tidbit:
Blood is really warm.
It's like drinking hot chocolate
but with more screaming.
Here's another general observation:
Brains are less squishy
and a tad bit more squeaky
that someone might guess.
And another, which appears inside the book with a "his skull", but is on the cover as follows:
Biting into heads
is much harder than it looks.
The skull is feisty.
A general warning: This book is full of zombie murders and mayhem, including descriptions of zombies decomposing, maggot infestations, and gruesome injuries. Interestingly enough, Ryan Mecum, zombie haiku-writer extraordinaire, worked as a youth pastor at a Presbyterian church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Gotta love a youth pastor who writes about zombies. Coming this summer, Ryan's next opus: VAMPIRE HAIKU.
7 comments :
Sweeet!
Hope he does ninja haiku as well.
The drinking of warm blood and feasting on squeaky brains are deliciously macabre. I would read this, but never when I'm home alone.
Teacherninja: NINJA haiku would completely rock.
Jama: It doesn't become scary so much as sickening. But I still recommend it.
zombies truly are the next big thing. and not a unicorn on the horizon to be seen...
David: You and I should definitely be writing unicorn books for boys.
i'm firmly in the zombies camp, though many of my friends are unicorn sympathizers. i'm down for doing a book for boys, but only if they're unitaurs (cross between a centaur and a unicorn).
Am I too late (or more accurately, was I too early) to say my zombie haiku? http://zombielogicblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/zombielogics-zombie-haikus-you-can-use.html
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