B: Xxxxxxxviiii: In Mdcccl Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

B: Xxxxxxxviiii: In Mdcccl



She revealed to someone acquainted with death,
an artist of tropical skill,
'Everything I am
and know
and do
is because of others' desire.
They turn me into something
Higher than what I am.'

'What you are asking, ' he said,
'is to be told just what you are.
You're a bag of bones,
a vampire'

and, what meant in 1850,
un valet de chair baiser.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Les Metamorphoses du vampire, No 115a; not in Poemhunter.
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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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