Halloween Night

Halloween Night Remember the dead on ‘Allhallowtide’ and do not forget the living not just for an evening and not for one night as Halloween is for all time’s sake for souls and places old and new however haunted or not Hallow or unholy Pagan or not it has been claimed by many a cause and trick-or-treating and bonfires remind me the ‘Hamburger’ I am of ‘Rummelpottlaufen’ near the river with a pig’s bladder claiming from door to forsaken door a feast of sweet biscuits and bobbing apples when the times where not long gone when you got an orange or piece of coal for Christmas after the War to end all wars to remind of humility and ancestral plights and to keep the young ones in check Like a ‘Weeny Teeny and Itsy Bitsy Yellow Polkadot Bikini’ hallowed be thy name a fig leaf with carved out orange pumpkin flesh flashes candle light into longing for peace at times hallow then hollow or shallow when covering up shy nudity with fabric–ation emerged from the atoll and nuclear conscience with regular paradigmatic dots on capital’s narration Stripped to the bone of contention lost weeny meaning camouflages and shelters the commercial hijacking of an innocent custom like a prank or a horror film in which the Saints broker shares Seers are blinded by banks and food banks and the polluted Druids sing money’s vigil at the altar of greed Halloween bridges the gap from Easter Bunnies to Chocolate Father Santa Clauses’ indigestion and money makes the waist and world go round ever more and more often many most ‘mostest’ in quick impermanent rise The night from evening to daylight and dusk into dawn was intended for pause and reflection abstention from vulgar opulence and never in a million years meant to descend into pitch dark dead of eventide when the juxtaposition of dollar eyed branded costume bearers torch the gloomy witching hour as we must not forget that the rich need exploitation of the poor for their wallets to prosper When meaningful customs and culture are colonized and children are bullied when they cannot or wish not afford that ‘designer pumpkin’ the ‘Rolls Royce’ witch crafted party dress or the ‘Rolex’ pancakes organically crafted from genetically modified potatoes then and just maybe it might be The time to remember what All and Hallow and Evening represents and how marginalized we all have become by a festival of commerce as our essence is disenfranchised by the dogma of our not so hallow grimace’s sheen 18th October 2016