Thank you. There was an earlier one. (see below)
Gerald S.
> very nice indeed. though I'd prefer the lines to be a word or two longer
>
> KS
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Halloween
Come on into this house of night whoever
you may be. I am waiting here with my black
box of words. Hey, you there, may have this
one, and, you, riding your stick backwards
in fast wind, take this one here.I am
remembering this night before All Saints Day,
when I answered the door to children. You
are not children playing at vampires, or spooks,
pirates, superheroes, or hexers spelling hexerei,
but souls pretending to be people; this is really
something I can sense I know, being myself no
more significant than you are, who have no
portal through time but stand outside with
your tiny treats and threats and vague promise--
there waiting on small sentences, strings of words--
more than words can be.
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