I found this great 9 stanza comedic monologue poem from the FX series “What We Do In The Shadows”.
The speaker is a British vampire named Laszlo who’s hiding undercover as an average American in a Pennsylvania township under the alias Jackie Daytona.
This monologue poem is written in 9 enclosed quatrain stanzas with the weird rhyme scheme of XAAX, XBBX, XCCX, XDDX, XEEX, XFFX, XGGX, XHHX, XIIX, where X is a line that doesnt rhyme with anything.
to perform this monologue poem, Please remember that this is a COMEDIC monologue poem. Have fun with. Play around with pronouncing the syllables like a Brit who’s trying to sound American. Play around with the weird enclosed rhyme scheme. I feel like alot of the lines should be spoken ironically, especially when Laszlo speaks about how he was able to take over the Bar and Grille when the previous owner mysteriously disappeared because Laszlo killed him. Take your time and ENJOY doing this awesome monologue poem.
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After all that nonsense on Staten Island,
I cut loose to Pennsylvania
because it sounded like Transylvania.
We all know that sounds cool.
I infiltrated the township posing as your average American Yankee Doodle Dandy and I took over Lucky
Brews Bar and Grille.
The previous owner,
he
mysteriously
disappeared…because I killed him.
And I’ve not looked back since.
I now go by the name of Daytona,…
Jackie Daytona.
And I’ll tell you something.
Jackie Dayton’s life,
it ain’t so bad.
Not bad
at all.
No one here
knows I’m a
vampire…apart from the
people I’ve drained and killed,
but they’re dead now,
so that problem’s pretty
much solved itself. I’ve truly
grown to love
this township,
so I have rid it
of some motor bicycle criminals. It
may have sprang
from necessity,
but now, I
feel as though I
may never depart.
James Ivan 