LA NOCHE DE LAS ALMAS*
Chloe had an angel costume, and Louis was disguised as a hamburger. --- Halloween Night
She was dressed like an angel.
She did not have to, and could
have gone trick or treating in
her pink pyjamas, sleep marks
all wrinkled up on her gentle
face, like the blanket creases
tightly wound over her head
to rid the night of bogeymen.
Last year, he was Chewbacca,
why not a hamburger this time?
I said, any which way you go,
my boy, they will see your face,
and leave their Halloween
doors swearing they’ve seen
a King Burger angel wagging,
lettuce and bacon sagging,
cooing rather tremulously:
Trick or Treat, give me
something good to eat!
Roaming the cul-de-sac, my
cherubic tandem would have
looked too good to anyone, but
they’d have to eat their hearts out.
--- Albert B. Casuga
10-31-11
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