Imposters, for the Sunday Whirl Wordle #678

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Imposters

On this moonlit ghoulish night, the wind plays tricks on us.
It spins around our ghostly wraps and makes the vampires cuss
as all the wicked creatures rise up from the dead
to escape from where they’re buried and do what we all dread.
Within the crypts where they’ve been resting, their hearts just barely beating,
they’ve been plotting to impersonate small kids out trick-or-treating.
They’ll go out ringing doorbells, never once exposing
the fact that they’re real ghosts and goblins, not just children posing.
They’ll grab up all the candy so when the next child begs
for Hershey bars or Reese’s bars, they’ll only get the dregs
the zombies left––the  licorice and the candy corn,
so kids go home with empty bags—crying and forlorn.

This is the spell that witches cast in twenty-twenty-three
when they came out of hiding to see what they could see
And saw small nervy children impersonating witches
and goblins, ghosts and vampires, then making scary pitches
for popcorn balls and candy and other gastric pleasures.
Whereupon the witches decided to take measures
to turn the tables on the kids, they decided on a whim
to teach those kids a lesson by impersonating them!
So this is my fair warning that tonight when your bell rings,
and creatures wearing  witch hats or fangs or other things
first mouth an incantation or issue hearty “Boos,”
then demand that you give candy, lest a trick ensues,

best give them all the Hershey bars met by their greedy eye,
the Reese’s Bars and Milky Ways that they might espy.
But also keep a stash on hand for later in the night
when all professional witches and ghosts have taken flight.
And you hear a feeble knocking of gypsies with tearstained eyes
and ghosts in wrinkled bedsheets and little goblin guys
with smiles all turned upside down and tummies empty of
chocolate and gummy bears and other sweets they love
because their competition has beat them to the knock,
please bring out all that candy that you have kept in stock
to fill the bags of children who come knocking at your door.
These fakers are the real creatures that Halloween is for!

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle, the prompt words are: ghoulish night wind tricks spin wrap spell wicked dead crypt buried within

26 thoughts on “Imposters, for the Sunday Whirl Wordle #678”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Ann, because the fraccionamiento I live in is built on a mountain, it is a very long climb up to the top (and I am one block from the top) so we all take our candy down to the entrance and folks volunteer to give it out there. These pictures were taken there. They really go all out. One Halloween, I went to Forgottenman’s house in Missouri for Halloween and got wonderful photos there as well. I love Halloween and miss going to the door, actually. That was my favorite activity when I came back from three years abroad and moved in with Patti…going to the door to take candy to Trick or Treaters! And remember our Poor Taste party? I still have a photo of you and Tony in your costumes.

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  6. annieasksyou's avatarannieasksyou

    Brought me back to my childhood trick-or-treating, Judy. There was one house where the man answered the door–I don’t recall how he was dressed–but he yelled “Boo!” and scared the hell out of us. Then he gave us each a quarter, which was unheard-of generosity for Halloween way back then, so we returned yearly.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      We went to a house while Trick or Treating once and the people gave us an entire box of Hershey bars. Now that I think of it it was probably because they had decided to close up for the night, but my sister and her friend decided it wasn’t right to take the entire box and told us each to take one and returned the rest of the box to the porch. Now that is integrity.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          It is now really big in Mexico, but this has happened over the past 25 years, I’d guess. It had just started when I moved here. Now it is very popular in my part of Mexico. This year there were more things for Halloween than for Day of the Dead in the local Walmart.

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