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Vicious Vampire
I'm a man who you should not admire.
I am dangerous because I'm a vampire.
When I bite people on their necks, they become vampires as well.
If they're killed by wooden stakes or sunlight, they will go to Hell.
I kill many people by drinking their blood every night.
People try to run when they see me because of fright.
But I'm too quick for them and when I suck their blood, I drain them dry.
And if I see you face to face, I will drink all of your blood and you will die.
Some people just grabbed me and one of them just drove a stake through my heart.
I've been a vampire for four hundred years but now I'm about to depart.
When I became a vampire, I thought that I would never expire.
The world will be better off because there'll be one less vampire.
I read this poem, and it
I read this poem, and it confused me just a bit, in the ninth and the last lines.
In the ninth line, the vampire states that he has been grabbed and staked. And yet he continues to talk, I am not seeing the logic. I think most people would cite Dracula, by Bram Stoker, as the most major authority on the vampire legends, due to the thoroughness of his research; and, in each of the stakings described in the novel, the vampires are no longer communicative or active.
In the final line, the vampire states that the world will be better off with one less vampire. Yet, in both Stoker's novel and in Stephen King's novel, Salem's Lot, the vampires seem not only to enjoy their existence, but to believe that they have a right to exist and to feed upon the living. I am just wondering if you could clarify why the vampire in your poem has a sudden change of attitude inconsistent with the legend and the various literary accounts of the last couple of centuries?
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