evangelical vampire migas
blem vide
how vampires came to be associated with
lost pages in a yugoslavian radio
advertisement for breakfast food
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sit your ass down
look
i had a birthmark
on my mind
yesterday
it was a religious mimicry
a lost sloshed memory
of a small victory
at the royal albert hall
yes
it was a bar code
printed across my forehead
god said i was an experiment
of his better to say hers
kiss this sexy
monk bazaar
nightmare
so i opened roget's
thesaurus
to page 333
to cut this nasty
voodoo in half
romance
or
damnation?
on page 334
i saw your
black & white
illustration
of a midnight
nosferatu orgy
to be or not to be
a vicious lust
pin prick
please hold my hand
ma'am
quick
a bite on the neck
of the bride and groom
i thought the Lyceum Ballroom
was a sunken artist brothel
stranger things have escaped
my attention
reculture china
with ketchup
vlad drac
can't drink
dirty blood
i apologize
to my livingroom
if god makes pancakes
& if pancakes
make mistakes......
.....can orson wells
please tell me
how many vampires
it takes to taste
USDA beef
on the dead end of
a dinner fork?
don't play me any
radio broadcasts
of south american
garlic panics
don't cross
transvestites
with a transylvanian
war of the
rosebuds
don't remind me
of my adolescent
years spent
on a winter sled
in a snow globe
i am a modern
citizen of
babylon
tryin' to get
a vampire
groove on
count shaft blackula
spoon dancing
hippy drip's
stark naked
under a volkswagon
rainbow faucet
closed captioned
for the crooning impaired
you see,
it all started
in the dining room
of a rented house
on top of the proverbial hill
i was huffing imported gas
and staring into earth
i didn't cross my heart
the secret is not
a bram stoker
copyright
infringement
it's not a silver
bullet mystery
of salem's lot
it's a crowded
shopping mall
parking lot
it's two months
of summer sundays
if it's a good thing
it must be too rare
to be studied closely
it's dragging a plow
and coming down
the driveway
i see a jewish
bumpersticker
of junk love
tell me, mr. blem vide
what does a vampire
have to do with
a twisted ankle?
a broken wing flaps
nine possible answers
and only one
will properly
rhyme
with dracula
i pour red wine
down the kitchen sink
and hold on to my
lucky spatula
blem vide ©2003
