Vampires are Real

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Vampires are Real

“The strength of a vampire is that people will not

allow themselves to believe in them.”

--Garrett Fort

I like you too much not to tell you--there are real vampires in 

this world. I am one. I am 72 but I look 35. You know, because

of the tremendous popularity of Vamps in the last twenty years,

& the proliferation of pretender wannabes, it makes it much

easier for us to live amongst you without detection.

You may have noticed that I have a greenish-yellow ring around

my iris, & that I seem short of breath a lot. I pass that off as a

case of asthma. It is unnerving, I’m sure, that when you just

glance at me, I know it, & I stare at you immediately. If you return

my stare, you will not be able to look away until I let you. I have

a thick, heavy aura, but it is not depressing--rather it raises some

euphoric reaction in you.

My fingernails are like clear glass, but are very strong. I sleep in

a bed, not a coffin. I am not immortal, but I live more than a century.

When I’m around, electronic devices often malfunction. I do not appear

to have fangs, but my canines are extra sharp. No one has to be killed 

for blood. We all have relationships with very willing donors, many of 

them Emos. We do substitute blood from herbivores, but blood from pigs & 

chickens is not safe; full of deadly parasites. Sunlight will not kill us, but it 

does make us very uncomfortable, like you having a sunburn, & our eyes 

are super sensitive; thus my constant wearing of cool sunglasses--without 

them we suffer terrible migraines. Consumption of human blood gives us 

immunity to the sun for 2-3 days. 

Sex with a vampire

is heaven cloaked in hell;

something memorable.

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub "Poetics"