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A Hideous Halloween!   

 

Ghastly grimaces galore

Gruesome Gut-wrenching guffaws

Grim and grisly gore-gluttoners!

 

Cruel cacophonous cackles

Calamitous cranium crunching

Creepy chest cavity-crushing!

 

Blood-boiling barbecues

Brain-bashing bamboozlers

Bombastic belly barfing!

 

Titillating toe twisting

Terrifying tarantula tormentors

Intolerable intestine torching!

 

And above all

Heinous horrifying helldaciousness

Haunting howling hysteria

And harrowing Halloween hideousness!

 

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Halloween Time

 

Greasy grimy gopher guts

Worse than smelly cigarette butts;

Slimy grimy slippery worms

And awful hideous germs;

Rotten dried-up zombie brains

And old skeleton men with clicking canes;

Blood-sucking vampires with red-dripping fangs

Goblins, ghosts and ghouls running in gangs;

Bewarted green-faced witches

And nervous corpses with twitches;

Ragged stumbling mummies

Who irreparably lost their mommies;

Slashed, gashed, and trashed victims

Inflicted with hideous symptoms;

A squirmy rat with squealings

Crunchy blood-fried batwings

And glaring rubbery eyes in a hag's stew

Top it off by throwing in an old shoe!

Spell-casting wizards

And lizards eating their gizzards;

Skeletons, skulls, and bones

Found in the locker of Davie Jones!

Even scum like pirates and buccaneers

Are required to offer their evil sneers;

Cobwebs with spiders

And other big toothed biters;

Haunted houses and maniac mansions

Creepy basements and dreaded dungeons

Putrid pits and pendulums

Always the prisoner’s conundrum

A tribute to Edgar Allan Poe

Writer of many tales of terror, doncha know

 

This is the way of Halloween

There's no in between

No gray areas here

Only a grim and ghastly sneer

This is the time of Halloween

As you have clearly seen!

 

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Wizard's Lizards Gizzards and other Nonsense Blizzards

I've seen wizards trapped in blizzards with their lizards eating gizzards

And I've gawked at wicked witches with switches that gave you twitches

And I've gandered at slashers and gashers and bashers and mashers.

 

I've glared at dancing skeleton men with skeleton keys clanging around their boney necks

And I've glowered at worm-infested, gauze-wrapped stumbling mumbling mummies

And I've witnessed howling werewolves in need of extra-strength breath mints.

 

I’ve gawped at stomping Frankenstein monsters with their shoelaces to lose and neck screws too tight

And I've spied geeks, sneaks, and creeps herd into that killer Chiller Diller Thriller Theater

And I've gaped in shock when crazy creatures, monstrous monsters, and demented demons came out!

 

But these are nothing compared to me! 

Because I'm a bone-crunching, blood-gushing

Eyeball-munching, brain-sucking

Innards-devouring, spine-splitting, rib-tickling,

Foot-fetishing, finger-licking, snot-sniveling,

Hellraising, corpse-chomping zombie from hell!

 

Bwoooo-Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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A Night of Fright!

 

This night is very scary

This time is very hairy

This place is very  creepy

There's no way you’d get sleepy

It's full of heebie-jeebies and jeepers-creepers

 So I hope there's no high wall leapers

‘Tis an awful harrowing night

It's a night so full of fright

It's fraught with witches and warlock

So you'd better keep your door locked

And there are ghouls and ghosts and goblins

All with sneers and snarls and grimaces and grins

They’re hooting and howling

And giggling and yowling

You'll notice their creepy scary faces

Of anything nice there are no traces

And yet most of them are very small

Not a one is at all very tall

And they come collecting candy, goodies, and treats

With big bags aholding -- boy, they’re little sneaks!

Dancing and skipping along the streets, to and fro

From door to door they come and go

And when a door opens, they sing their age-old Halloween bleat:

"Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!"

And the once-frightened house-dwellers are now relieved

For these are but children, they now perceive

And now we have seen

That it's only Halloween!

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Copyright by 2007 by R. R. Stark

Bamblebrush Press

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