Puncture Wounds

This is a second version of a collection of poems that I published with another author, Scott Urban, offering half of the poems for the collection. I have lost contact with Scott and so I will only publish my own poems and perhaps one that we collaborated upon. The title was chosen based on the mythology of the vampire - a souless creature. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer tradition developed by Josh Whedon (an atheist) he equates lack of a soul with lacking a conscience. I have met a few people like that, unfortunately.

As a clinical social worker, I didn't expect psychopaths or narcissists to come in for therapy and so I was not educated on such people, nor had I studied them until I met someone who met that profile or those characteristics. I then felt obligated to study such things for my own safety and to not miss the signs in the future. I also didn't want it to take a long time to see a psychopath for what they are.