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Halloween Undone

Halloween Undone Halloween! Forever marking a a special celebration calling you to pretend you’re really not YOU! Will you engage in diabolical trickery as your favorite but cautionary must DO? Vampires’ mischief with abduction and feasting on vibrant blood a delicious treat from an undead alien or friend? Or, did this Halloween mischief play havoc creating a paralyzed body no longer able to pretend? October 16, 2020 Free Verse Halloween Challenge Poetry Contest

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Thomas Wells

Date: 11/19/2020 9:50:00 AM

Hi Jeannie, I think one of the reasons we like Halloween so much is because we have morbid curiosity about death and dying. Your vampire imagery conveys that very effectively. Great job! Keep writing!

Jeannie Flinn Furlong
Date: 11/19/2020 10:18:00 AM

Hello! Thank you for your comments! I love Halloween...but I agree with you. We humans DO have this morbid curiosity about death and dying...the wanna know battles the not really wanna know as we consider how to 'know' without 'going there'? I applaud your Elegy to Ruth B Ginsberg...what a LADY to loose during our critical times! You honored her well with your work. I