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The Vampire's Lament: Cantos XIX-XXV

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May 18, 2026
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The Vampire’s Lament: Cantos XIX-XXV

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XIX

The Vampire this news digests,
In his mind he coolly tests
Its import against the code
Which the finer things corrodes.
His face grows hard, then grows light,
As the sides within him fight:
To accept, or with cruel phlegm
Pinings of his son condemn.
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