Zombie Haiku

I grab a quick meal / while skimming through the paper. / Death, death, death, comics (7).

Zombie Haiku is a journal composed almost entirely of haiku poems about the zombie apocolypse. It begins as a poetry journal with lovely haiku about dandelions and magic and romance, but quickly turns into something else... along with the author. As the journal progresses, more and more people turn into zombies, or are eaten by zombies, or are eaten by zombies then turn into zombies, and all of it is recorded in haiku.

All I think about / is how hungry I will be / once I eat this foot (72).

In addition to the zombie haiku, there are also polaroid photos of zombies and zombie attacks. The journal is also covered in blood, duct tape, hair and guts. The journal begins and ends with notes scrawled by a person who found the journal (or took it out of a zombie's hand after he broke it off by smashing it repeatedly with a door). The note-scrawler reads the journal while he's waiting for certain doom, then finally a zombie himself. It is a scary, fun, quick, creepy read, "a thoroughly unique and entertaining experience." Robert Kirkman, author of The Walking Dead and Marvel Zombies.

Mecum, Ryan. 2008. Zombie Haiku. Cincinnati: HOW Books. ISBN 9781600610707