Rum N Raisin 10 - Three Months of Crazy

Raisin just stared at the chaos ahead A kitten, confused as she sat there in dread The world has gone mad, all the people have flipped She glared at a window where blood and gore dripped Folk wearing specs that have eyeballs on springs Rubber bats hanging on elastic strings Teeth that are pointed that vampires call fangs A sycamore tree where a skeleton hangs Raisin leapt back as a gremlin passed by His mother ignoring the stake in her eye Even our kitten was quite unconvinced When someone approached with a brain that was minced Green painted people with bolts through their necks “Give us a treat or you’ll suffer a hex.” Bedsheets with lights in and black holes for eyes Sound effects belting out groans, sighs and cries Raisin considered how humans survived When all of this subterfuge is so contrived Only a dog who might fall for it all Might sit there and wait for his master to call Pumpkins on doorsteps with faces carved in A Skeleton’s arm hanging out of a bin One man is walking though he should be dead Because of the arrow stuck right through his head Raisin rushed in through the cat flap and panted “The humans have all gone bananas,” she ranted. “The dominant species on Earth - it is said Is out there pretending that they are all dead.” Rum said, “Don’t panic, there’s nothing to fear, Today is precisely two months till new year. If Ronald Rat hadn’t said what that might mean I wouldn’t have known that tonight’s Halloween.” Raisin eyed Rum with suspicion and said, “This three months of craziness fills me with dread, For any time now, once again they will try To send cardboard rockets up into the sky. They’ll get tiny bombs and they’ll set them alight And watch them explode in the chill of the night It all says to me that they’re all round-the-bend.” Then Rum said, “That’s not where the ‘crazy’ will end, “For soon they’ll be wearing white beards and red suits And walking on rooftops in black welly boots But they won’t use ladders as you might suppose But chimneys and reindeer and one big red nose.” The door opened wide and their human stood there Holding a fake severed head by its hair And Rum rolled his eyes as he said with a laugh, “Which is why dogs have owners, but we cats have staff.”