Halloween is nothing to celebrate.
It should not be fun.
On my tenth Hallows'
my Appendix nearly burst
as a ghoulish German dwarf
cruelly tried to make me laugh
with his Swabian accent
while I writhed in pain.
It's no excuse to stuff your faces with sweets
(Which mother blamed for my malady).
When evil is let loose before Saints return,
streets and sidewalks shall be Rivers of Blood.
Blanched yellow leaves become
bright gold coins in Sun's smithy
The cool breeze carries your fragrance
like a benediction
Our hands entwined know touch
shares more mystery than breath
Chased chimeras for years
and life, the ultimate spoil,
will be pinched from me
by the subtlest hand.
Only death keeps score,
toe tags add up.
Jesus is the greatest thief of all.
He nicked eternal life from death
and, like a thief in this night,
returns to take mine.
Crisp air of your essence,
clarity of its bouquet,
overwhelms all sense.
You mock my ardor,
but I will not surrender.
God was hardest upon
His most ardent prophets.
I love the chase as much as capture.
I know both sides of rapture.
In your arms being cast down
or taken up is equal pleasure.
Lurid house-fronts line the banks
as tourist boats glide lifelessly by...
Songs never heard as shopkeepers
toll waterways and patent every hue.
Smiles shine brighter than
freshly minted coins.
Every boy and girl a budding
Bounderby or Hetty Green.
This cashbox Venice that banished
Santa Claus centuries ago...
Where Soarin' Graveyards died hated
and Jens cursed with his last breath.
My breath is a menace I'm told,
whether indoors midst vents
or outside under towers.
There is no refuge, no Prince Galahalt
to slay invisible, variating, Dragons.
Overburdened Angels of Mercy
stoically vent about those
they've lost patience with and euthanize.
I look out between blinds and see
well spaced lines of bodies in masks
under Sun's kind light who look
like variants of the Stoic Angels
knowing the tales and tailism are endless,
a terror induced enclosure without escape.
