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The Pumpkin and the Skull

By William A. Lefrancois | Observer Contributor

In a dark, dreary, deserted, desolate field

a pale, petrified pumpkin patch lies full of yield.

Many are round, robust, rigorous, righteous globes of orange;

One alone sullen, sad, sorrowful, sorry unfit for the grange.

On a nearby hill, high, hideous, hints of mortality

a graveyard yawns, yearns, yellowing, yesterday’s totality.

Underground buried, bruised, banished bones await;

Halloween night arrives, awesome, angry angst of fate.

Bones in multitudinous, murky, mire mix of shape;

Prominent sorrowful, sullen, subdued skull wanting escape.

It’s lusting, lonely, liberty longing to rejoin life;

Fertility in the patch, promising, pervasive, pundit of strife.

A passerby costumed, cold, crimson, creature of night;

Entering the patch, pitying, pleading pumpkins in sight.

The many unimpressed, unique, undulating unfit to carve;

One lonely reject, responsive, resonant, respecting starve.

To the gruesome, gangrenous, gaunt graveyard next;

The passerby seeking, solitary, souvenir skull annexed.

Pumpkin and skull craved, crated, clandestine crept away;

The costumed passerby perilously, pursuing, partying way.

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