
“The Autobiography of Frogs” and Other Poems
Duy Đoàn, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize for We Play a Game
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — First Kiss Scene
Interior – Black and white. The VAMPIRE’s bedroom – Night
POSTERS cover the walls: Michael Jackson Thriller cover, Madonna Madonna cover, lots of other posters. There’s a BED in the background, a DISCO BALL hanging from the middle of the room, a RECORD PLAYER against the right wall. It’s Halloween.
ARASH, dressed as a vampire, is lying face-up on the vampire’s bed. He’s on the comedown from E. The vampire is facing away from him, standing in front of the record player. She puts a record on. He’s lying still. She starts the record…
0:14 – “Death” by White Lies is the song.
0:37 – Arash stirs.
0:48 – Lyrics start / “I love the feeling when we”
0:50 – “lift off”
Four seconds after “lift off,” but not AT “lift off…