Halloween is associated with strange creatures, but none more so than the vampire. To most, the vampire is a myth, an image popularized in movies, television and books. Yet the vampire is no mere Hollywood creation. It is a universal legend.

Man, I saw something last night.
It was great - I was flyin' high on a nicotine buzz and those four double shots of old Mr. Daniels
Were just starting to reach my head

when I saw something
something so great,
so inspirational

That I stopped dead in my tracks
transfixed
But roaring thunder crashed behind my back
Shaking my reverie apart with anticipation
And, like a drunk without a bottle
I tore the night a new asshole
With a cackle, the mad, triumphant laugh
Of a wise man dancing with ludicrosity

To live is to die
All truth is but a lie

To sleep is to wake
Genuineness is fake

To love is to hate
Chances are fate

Atheism is belief
Bliss is only grief

We call tyranny democracy
In this world full of hippocracy.

Ophelia
August 4, 1996

The cold rushes in
and knocks me from
my steady climb
and then I fall
further then ever.
There used to be a
safety net called
love, but that net
has turned to dust
and was blown as
was my strength
before and also as
was my wisdom of
long-past years,
blown from my grip
and out of my last
reach for you too.
Blown from my hope
and my love, blown
so far away just
like I'm blown out
of any's reach and
everyone's grace.

Prince Angel
January 4, 2002

Cold as ice, thou breath doth feel,

Skin ablaze in firey hell,

Mine heart crushed beyond repair.

 

Speak not the memories of past ages,

think not the cold caress of teeth to flesh,

but think always of my love for thee, tortureous.

 

Love not the way I think you dear,

nor of the way I hold you near,