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Costuming Halloween Just Playing Here

Costuming Halloween

Masque my visage fast!
…So my eyes bulge out, drunken red, and give me
    purpled, hairy lips and cheeks to complete 
My bloodcurdling look — Yikes!
So scary…Not sweet!
So chilling that Halloween’s 
Gross memories of seeing me will not be beat!

Then, when I float from door to door,
Levitating on a smoky breeze,
To greet the folks’ aghast gazes, I’ll growl
    with a phantasmal voice to haunting, I’ll declare,
“Boo!  Trick or treat!” and 
They’ll step back away as if shock could kill, but
Thrilled, gasp, “Hey!  Your costume’s a blast!”

Whereupon, I’ll begin my Halloween act
By morosely sharing, “T’is not a costume at all,
But my natural state…’T’is my own gross, gremlin grin;
My own foot-long ears; my own outlandish, fear-frizzed hair, 
That altogether has me wailing, especially on
       H a l l o w eve n  night
      “BOO-hoo!  Boo!  Boo-hoo!”


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(c) sally young eslinger 10/30/2023
Happy Birthday Jim!