A Halloween Poem – Susan Jarvis Bryant

Halloween—The New Normal

The maskless masses gather on the street
With scant regard for grouchy-Fauci rules.
The granny-slaying, unvaxxed ogres meet
As curtain-twitching Karens eye these ghouls
From hazmat-suited safety as they fume
At murderous monsters milling neath the moon.

The spawn of fierce smut-busters fool around.
They snigger as they loiter on the lawn.
Their terroristic parents are renowned
For haunting schools whose bookshelves heave with porn.
There’ll be no drooling sugar-drizzled feasts
For proudly priggish, smiley, pious beasts.

The patriarchal ghosts of yesteryear
Are looming at the windows of the woke
Who gaze upon these toxic spooks with fear—
Such pasty revelry is not a joke
For those who who crave to stroke a pygmy llama
To stave off harm from haughty pale-male drama.

The mega-MAGA-hatted fiends with flags
All wave their fearsome Stars and Stripes with glee,
Triggering the zombie sheep and nags
To gnash their teeth and bleat on bended knee.
The vampires cower in coffins sealed up tight—
Wings shivering, fangs chattering with fright…

When Brandon sniffs a hair on Halloween,
The dog-faced pony soldiers will convene.