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
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2016
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