Poetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Blood Before Midnight is a collection that deals with themes of surrealism, addiction and mental health. The poems move through strange characters and settings such as private schools where students sniff cocaine, octopus dance clubs, neon lit movie theatres and more. Maceo Nightingale is a writer based in California. Blood Before Midnight was written in rehab centers, psych wards and sober livings across California and Austin Texas and finished while living in his apartment in Hancock Park Los Angeles.