[for Ishion Hutchinson]

The thing about entertaining them,

about keeping their company,

about fraternizing,

is you must remember

they are bloodless

and have many faces,

though it's easy enough

to walk in sunlight,

where either you or they

become invisible,

never together seen;

easy to get in bed with them,

to bed them,

to be seduced by them-

listing in their own dominance.

Remember what makes one human,

animal, is not the high road

but the baseness in the heart,

the knowledge that they could,

at any moment, betray you.