Halloween Night 2015

Halloween night 2015--

A bevy of goblins and ghouls

Out there in the dark of the night

Met to shape their new rules.

 

"Let us unite! Let us be one

In our quest to upset the truth."

Their work, they agreed, would come to fruition

In a future polling booth.

 

"Stir the cauldron of rampant despair;

Throw in confusion and doubt.

Add a pinch of oblivion so no one

Knows what we're about.

 

Let us deceive with facile duplicity;

Let us trick the unwary.

Above all, don't let them see our true selves.

THAT, fellow ghouls, would be scary!"

 

Their voices rose in the crisp autumn darkness--

A murky, grumbling chant:

"Hiss. Hiss. Ignorance is bliss.

Woe to them who recant….

 

"Let us be amorphous and vague;

Let them see what we're not.

Give us the power of doublespeak

To dodge all critical thought."

 

Werewolves howled. Black cats screeched.

A haunting moan filled the air.

A poor, disoriented bat got tangled

In one ghoul's corn-tassel hair.

 

"May we strengthen our power to mislead--

To obliterate those who defy us

With vicious attacks based on lies.

We'll let nothing get by us.

 

"Let us prolong the witching hour.

May it last for a year!

Stir the pot of forgetfulness,"

They all said with a sneer.

 

Halloween night 2015--

A frightening night to remember.

Beware the ghoul who leads the pack

Next year in November.

(11-1-15)