With apologies to R.L. Stevenson
My submission notes from this period drowned in a flooded basement apartment; I'm pretty sure it was published, no idea where
No sooner has the sun gone down When I awake and go to town. Since vampires bit me where I lay I have to go to bed by day. I wander round while others sleep.
Vapor things crawl out of sight Shadowed shapes loose in the night When company comes I don’t see th… A crash and a laugh and I know wh… They don’t put on the lights or si…
Where the bat sucks, there suck I… In my native soil I lie; There I couch when morning’s nigh… In a wolf’s guise I do glide All the evening stealthily.
Landlord, said I, there are bats… Landlord, said I, I confess that… You’re a good caretaker, neither s… I’d be much obliged for a fence to… An electrified fence would be nice…
I have a little demon who goes in… And how he came to be so cruel is… He is wrinkled, blue and stinky fr… And I see him try to trip me, whe… The weirdest thing about him is th…
Blood junkie come and check me out… Nice warm neck, soft fleshy should… Why don’t you be a little bolder? Fly right in for a little snack. I’ve got a crucifix, stay back!
I met my double late one night Coming up the stair. I would have scolded loud and long Except he wasn’t there. “Why keep these dreadful hours?”…
I asked my love to hold my hand. My love was not afraid. I heard the steady pattering sound His stoutly true heart made. I gave my love a gentle kiss.
Leopard Leopard come for me You’re the brightest thing I see Nothing fazes me at all Though it reaches from the wall My eyes are closed, I’m waiting h…
A predator in tie and tails The sea of matrimony sails But sails Alone. When asked where is your better ha…
Two roads diverged in a horrid woo… and sorry I was to be there at all… Two roads, night fallen, there I… (would it have been thus if I’d be… under a thunder clouded pall.
Does your mom make you sit in a sw… She hurls it toward Timbuktu? Oh, I do think that’s the awfulle… Ever a mom can do! Splinters below and sunburn above,
I denied the clock stopped ticking… I denied the coldness grew. I denied the floorboards creaking. I denied the ghost of you. I placed no hope in spirit writing
They think I whisper secrets to m… Another drooling booby on the dole… Another dirty, crazy, lonely soul. I am content to let them think lik… This disguise is wise. So says my…