RobbieLaBanca

{Vampire} You are warm to me thick and tepid and moving inside my skin You scratch upon the insides of my sinewy muscles that writhe in sweet agony beneath your steely talons piercing my paper skin drops of sunlight steaming down my wrists Vampire marks screaming out in the daylight against my pale flesh {secret} (Empty me and move forward Away into the velvet void Whispering as you leave me Songs only bones can hear)

In the city Footsteps are crisp on damp pavement And the cold freezes little children's toys in plastic silence Leaves play tag in the gutter and jump in the wind to hide as you pass In the city God lives on Main and 1st and calls himself Crazy Pete The savant moon smiles down casting long willowed shadows with its teeth The chill speaks to your bones and makes them cry out like a lost child In the city Harangue gives way for heartbeats to go unheard Buildings mask sunless concrete And the beaming arms of the city surround me, awkwardly, like a mother hugging her least favorite child