Blade, Unplugged
V14
Tim Seibles 2012
It’s true:
I almost never smile,
but that doesn’t mean
between rage
and
complete surrender.
That’s where
I’m smiling.
You just
can’t see it—
the sound
bleeding perfectly
inside
me. The first time
I killed
a vampire I was
sad: I mean
we were
almost
family.
that’s
so many lives
ago.
I believe
the cry that cuts
into the
melody, the strings
calling
back the forgotten world.
When I think of the madness
that has made me and the
midnight
I walk inside—
all day long:
I think of that
one note
that breaks
what’s left
of what’s
human in me,
man,