I am an urban vampire. My real name is unimportant as I have had so many over the years, besides names are merely the crude labels humans use and that is something I have not been for many years.

November 26, 1998 (The Washington Post) - Blood-sucking vampires may have their history in disease rather than the supernatural, according to a Spanish neurologist. Dr Juan Gomez-Alonso has put forward a novel theory to explain the Dracula legend - vampires were suffering from rabies. The Neurologist hit on the rabid vampire theory after watching a Dracula film.

Tears of blood he sheds at night
screams so loud they shake the sky
he can't escape try all his might
the ancient language he does cry.
He never meant to hurt her
couldn't see past his blindness
her love and life he does prefer
he for some reason was lacking kindness.
His life is eternal
continuing from day to day
like that of hells infernal
forever having things his way.
Blood is that he does need
to live on night to night
he's what they call the demon breed

September 6, 2002 (ananova.com) - A three-year-old boy in Brazil shot his sleeping father because he was scared of vampires. The boy's mother has blamed a new soap opera called "The Kiss of the Vampire" for the incident. In the programme, broadcasted by Rede Globo TV station, vampires terrorise a small town.

What happens when theres a war?
Death and Malice is what comes to mind;
What is the point of war?....Order?
How do you bring about order with chaos?
In war there are casualties, heroes, and civilians;
But when the war is in your backyard
no one is safe and there are no heroes;
If the war is in your backyard there
is nothing 'cept casualties and despair.

Prince Angel
September 22, 2001