Duy Doan

Tty’alll etc.

Originally published in Zombie Vomit Mad Libs

Like when your dog

died and his fleas took on the
ambition of rodents

and jumped ship.

Straight into the
ocean—

giant patch of clovers

behind the locked
barrel.

Sonnet the Hedgehog

Originally published in Zombie Vomit Mad Libs

after Terrance Hayes, after Tuấn Đoần

ber when that little blue speed mouse took half
a xanny and. Remember when that lit-
tle blue speed mouse took half a xanny and.
Remember when that little blue speed mouse
took half a xanny and. Remember when
that little blue speed mouse took half a xan-
ny and. Remember when that little blue
speed mouse took half a xanny and. Remem-
ber when that little blue speed mouse took half
a xanny and. Remember when that lit-
tle blue speed mouse took half a xanny and.
Remember when that little blue speed mouse
took half a xanny and. Remember when
that little blue speed mouse took half a xan

Hart <3

Originally published in Zombie Vomit Mad Libs

1929, 1935, 1974, 1963, 1964, 1938, 1969, 1912, 1984, 1972, 1951, 1982, 2009, 1950, 1996, 1978, 1941, 1857, 1984, 1996, 1956, 1937, 2003, 1941, 1921, 1970, 65 CE, 2002, 1926, 1974, 278 BCE, 1978, 2007, 1928, 1933, ca. 684 or 686, 1990, 1970, 1945, 2003, 1923, 1929, 1919, 1947, 1945, ____, 1770, 1966, 1925, 2009, 1991, 1976, 1914, 1998, 1367, 1974.

. . . . Don’t read this just as death wish;
Crane was unusually full of life.

—Robert Lowell/Elise Partridge

Duy Đoàn (pronounced zwē dwän / zwee dwahn) is the author of We Play a Game (Yale University Press), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. His second collection, Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, was published by Alice James Books this past November. Duy’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, The Margins, The Offing, and Poetry. He is a 2010 poetry alum.