Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum5/27/2023 The narrative that Mecum creates through the haiku is effective as we see the degeneration of a poet who continues to write after he dies. Actually, Mecum's poems are closer in content and theme to another form of Japanese poetry called senryu marked for its dark humor, cynicism and lack of reference to nature, but Mecum sticks to the Western haiku format of 5-7-5. The succinct format of a Western haiku-a three-line poem with five syllables, then seven, then five-is a natural fit for a creature with a limited vocabulary. Proving that no art form is safe from the clumsy evil, Ryan Mecum shows us the tender side of the mindless murderers with Zombie Haiku. Robert Kirkman's two superpowered zombie runs at Marvel Comics have once again raised the zombie genre from the dead.
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