Introduction

Interview with a Vampire July 6, 2018

Author’s Note: The style of the interview has changed with technology. This interview was solely done through FaceTime. There was no personal face-to-face interview. Technology has replaced the interpersonal relationships between the human species. But this interview, this interpersonal contact, was not between the human species. It was between two phyla, one which had never been categorized.

 As the interviewee put it…well, let’s just join the transcribed conversation.

Interviewer. Your thoughts concerning the celebration of America’s independence of our 242 years of freedom.

Mykel. I am Lakota Sioux born of the Oglala tribe. To this day, those of us who are not of Eurocentric birth are still not free. Just ask my other minority brothers.

Interviewer. Were you not born in the USA?

Mykel. I was born in Aspen Springs, Colorado, of half-Sioux and half-Polynesian parents, both of which are not of Eurocentric decent. Therefore, half plus half equals full-blooded non-Eurocentric birth.

 Interviewer. Then why do you fight for the American way?

 Mykel. I fight for God. For God is love. Man is of hate, greed, and lust.

Interviewer. You seem bitter. Are you?

Mykel. I might seem dark and contradictory to the human heart. But I am a light to the spiritual eye. What lens are you looking through? Rose-shaded?

Interviewer. So why were you chosen to help save the world?

Mykel. I don’t know. My human life didn’t deserve a second chance. I was egotistical, self-centered, and self-fulfilling, and surely sexually motivated, which caused my human downfall.

 Interviewer. How so?

Mykel. Read the damn series my brother wrote, Twin Memoirs.

Interviewer. You seem so hostile.

Mykel. You seem so human.

Interviewer. So how do we continue with some benevolence?

Mykel. The truth! Mankind sucks! As long as we intertwine humanity with spirituality, we will have conflict! Read the fucking Bible, the flesh is stronger than the spirt in most people. Therefore, it’s the eventual downfall of society. It takes pure spirituality, or the attempt at it, to overcome the flesh of humanity.

Interviewer. You feed on the flesh… So do you prefer humanity over…what is your species?

 Mykel. I’m fortunate. I was created by God without the conflict of humanity. Humanity is the downfall of spirituality. I thank God humanity was taken out of my equation. You can, therefore, call me a superhuman, but I prefer the term spiritually gifted, like Jesus was.

Interviewer. But you have shown human characteristics, especially gay tendencies and vulgar displays of sexual behavior in your concerts.

Mykel. I must appeal to the human psyche to get the attention of a race of people who have no morals, no values, no ethics. Yes, there are a few humans that surpass humanity such as my mother, whom I have compared to Mother Theresa.

Interviewer. So if your mother was a Mother Theresa, how could she have borne a human child like you?

Mykel. To show God there is hope in the lost. I was a fucked-up human being.

Interviewer. And now?

Mykel. To prove that prayer works. By the way, check my mom’s callused knees. I’m going to be so bold as to say my mom’s prayers were heard by God.

Interviewer. How so?

Mykel. Are you so blind? Look at me! I helped rid the world of an evil element.

Interviewer. To me, you seem so egotistical.

Mykel. Blunt is more accurate. Sometimes the truth hurts. And if you can get by the hurt…the truth will set you free.

Interviewer. Quoting scripture again?

Mykel. As a product of God, I’m proud to say yes.

Interviewer. Or a crutch? An excuse?

Mykel. Your humanity seems challenged?

Interviewer. Are you playing God?

Mykel. And you’re being so human. I was made in the image of God. I am a mini god. I too need to perfect my soul just as any human does. We are all in the same boat, the Ark of spirituality, a sinking ship.

Interviewer. Why did you accept immortality?

Mykel. To right the wrongs of my inferior mortality of humanity.

Interviewer. So humanity is inferior?

Mykel. As compared to spirituality? Yes.

Interviewer. I see a never-ending pompous attitude here.

Mykel. Well, maybe, just maybe there is a trace of humanity still within me. I’ll admit to that.

 Interviewer. How so?

Mykel. As a nonhuman, a vampire species, God did give me a heart, a human trait. I assume He wanted me to remain with a more humanlike quality with less vampire attributes.

Interviewer. Therefore, a human with a second chance, and in your case…with a guarantee of life.

Mykel. I’ll give you that insult.

Interviewer. Meaning?

Mykel. We are all created by God, you and me, human and nonhuman, so our goals are similar—mine much easier.

Interviewer. How so?

Mykel. Superhuman powers. Okay, forget the human part. I have superpowers.

Interviewer. And how will they work for you?

Mykel. They won’t work for me. They will work for God. Being much more in touch with Him, He guides me as He does humans. But there lies the difference. Humans have humanity blocking the conversation, the communication between them and God. I’m not human, so therefore, God and I have a direct link in communication. I have no vanity.

Interviewer. He guides you?

Mykel. Yes, just as He guides humans.

Interviewer. And the difference.

Mykel. I lack humanity. Humanity is the interference in communication with God. Are you not paying attention?

Interviewer. So tell me your story.

Mykel. Just read the damn book, Revolution.

Interviewer. Cussing within God’s work?

Mykel. No, just expressing my retention of humanity.

Interviewer. Should I be offended?

Mykel. No, offensiveness is a fault in humanity.

Interviewer. So if we do away with humanity, life would be better?

Mykel. You are catching on. Once you strip yourself of humanity, you have your true self, your true spiritual self.

Interviewer. True self?

Mykel. Yes…see you on the Other Side?

Interviewer. Other side?

Mykel. It’s where we are all from. It’s where our spiritual being is from. Again, read the Bible. For we leave the old man behind, humanity, and put on our spiritual self.

Interviewer. Sounds like religion.

Mykel. Sounds like spirituality, your true self.

Interviewer. Moving on…

Mykel. Read the damn book. That’s moving on.

Interviewer. One more question.

Mykel. Shoot.

Interviewer. Can you cure humanity?

Mykel. No. I can only heal humanity.

Interviewer. With a Band-Aid?

Mykel. With faith and healing.

Interviewer. Healing?

Mykel. That is more than one question.