The Last Vampire

The Last Vampire

There’s not many of us left according to the last email eye just checked

It’s become ever so exceedingly difficult to pass any given real or artificial blood test

Eye remember when sixteen of us would whimsically dance on a dead man’s capriciously jacked-in and fancifully tattooed chest

There are many of us who are ungratefully dead according to the last email eye read

It’s become quite the feat to find fresh meat that’s actually bloody and which still has the vivid vibrant tint of deep dark purple-red

Eye don’t remember the last time eye slept in a homemade bed

There aren’t many bounty hunters happily hunting according to the last email eye deleted

It’s ashamed that even those that are not undead have problems with blood banks that now run bone dry and are then found completely bare and depleted

Eye reminisce of a painted canvass rich with rain from gushing veins where you could drink ever so deeply even if you didn’t really need it

There’s lots of us who are now desperately needy and who forsakenly ride the city bus according to the email someone sent from the county jail

It’s insane to think that such an endgame has sent the best of us summarily to the perpetually petulant pits of hell

Eye totally recall a visit to the pearly gates once and can never ever escape the memory of its ever so familiar smell

There’s a few who have chosen to repent for sins long since past overdue

It’s deeply degrading to see demons and devils deny the deeds that they demonstratively still dispassionately love to disparagingly do

Eye keep forgetting not to go to church on any given Sunday when there’s always lots and lots of bibles and too many overcrowded pews

There’s nothing in the old snail mailbox and according to the latest and greatest email that eye just received the number of new messages is absolutely “none”

It’s now impossible to withstand the starry bright glare of even a totally eclipsed blood-red sun

Eye remember now and then and ever so precisely that the number of us remaining is exactly the sum total of the absolute value of “one”

Orrin K.  Loftin, Explorer

Copyright?  When the last vampire drank the last bloody drop, August 2010

[For Jauté, Happy hunting on Halloween!]