I was swimming with my family

in shark infested seas...

The largest sharks are punk

rock vampires -

boys who died as enemies

by blades & glass & gunshots thrust

through 17 year old skulls...

but as memories fade these

dreams are made to sharpen

what survival dulls.

Sharks attack my cousins & I defend

as best I can...

But the leader of the attacking pack;

he was & is a man...

And this shark he takes me down

& though his teeth are silver knives

And though he is a monster &

he's swallowed many lives...

The help I thought would come for me

will not & now he drowns me

though his face still chills; confounds me

& though he claims me as his slaughter

in the bliss & the underwater

acid trip of sex & death & passion

I must resist -

I must take action!

I lunge to the surface of all things

& as he follows me there I punch his

lights out

& he looks torn & broken &

hurt & rejected...

his eyeliner smudged shark's eyes

are darkness drenched & tear streaked.

But after fighting off the rest of the pack

& taking all of my family back

I realize I knew that face...

That boy was gone without a trace...

But now I can find him in the water...

Now I can find him & I'll be his slaughter...

He won't leave me this time

& he won't fade away...

Vampire sharks can now play light of day.

I find him... He smiles &

"Please let me fuck you."

"Please will you fuck me?"

and a smile or two...

The hellride... the death vibe...

Muliplied by two...

When he's finished I fuck him

& I know just what to do...

But the humans have tricked us;

my family of bitches...

The formula disolves...

& we all die in ditches

in front of his sister who longed

to be one of us...

Flashbacks in dreams

to a boy & our lust.

- For Brian L. -