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Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 1
Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for the month of November.
Topic : Write a poem about a Halloween costume that may have been popular in the past, but might not be as well received today. All manner of humor and satire welcome.
Form : Any
Line requirements: Eight or more.
Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish.
Questions?
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I dyed my hair gray and white
Drew some wrinkles on my skin
Extra putty on my chin
An orange jumpsuit not too tight
Everyone I'll ask for help
And hand them an end of rope
And before they can say 'nope'
Say, 'im not gonna hang myself'
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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Post-Endgame
Almost all the tricker-treater
costumes seen this misty year were
princesses for girls, while boys wore
pinstripes. Funny, is it not, that
super-heros, heroines have
gone the self-same ashy way
as vampires into louche cosplay?
[Thanos won.]
Non-practicing atheist
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11-01-2022, 08:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-01-2022, 08:07 PM by RiverNotch.)
Miss Marks' Lament
Where have all the teen wolves gone,
the skeletons from the serpent's teeth,
mummies, Frankensteins, King Kongs?
This Finn and Jake, this Walt and Jesse,
this blue hedgehog and red echidna,
this Taylor bird and Fresno Lana:
references to references to references.
Where went all the cinephiles
and those who still remember meaning?
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Halloween 1963
Costumes didn't matter.
What mattered was the camaraderie,
our gang going to the school carnival
getting sugar drunk on punch
sticking our fingers in a bow of spaghetti
the guts of a fake corpse,
then the night itself,
going door to door,
drunk again on our undying friendship
doused with laughter
as we feigned politeness to the adults we feared
more than any make believe monsters.
Innocence was our only disguise.
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A cold Halloween draft
Mistaken
Charlie Chaplin
as Hitler.
Van Gogh
a scarecrow.
The Riddler
green questioner?
Never deviate
from camo.
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11-02-2022, 06:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2022, 02:54 AM by Tiger the Lion.)
her father
would dress like a man
her mother
like a mom
but Halloween or no,
her brother
would dress exactly
the way he'd been told
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I still have a mask
of Elvis that I wear
when handing out candy.
More than a few times
kids, and some adults,
have asked me,
"who are you supposed to be?"
To minimize confusion
I have gone back to wearing
prison stripes.
