Happy October’s Extreme!

Halloween! Candy! Is this a dream?

Oh to be on the couch stuck in between

Buttered popcorn and a movie scene,

Watching some few really scared teens

Be silenced with many jump screams

designed to freak me out or so it seems.

Growing up, that wasn’t my lean,

Eating at my fears like fava beans,

These movies and the tv screens

Scaring me sick til I turn green.

But as I grew and formed a team

Of friends I hold to high esteem

For outings wearing makeup creams

On my face and threads I’ve deemed

Worthy of assembling into a themed

ensemble from a show we streamed,

I’ve begun to understand horror memes

And what they’re from and what they mean.

Monster parties and haunts will glean

Frightful visions and noises heard not seen

And Halloween will rise again all clean

Next year, same time, October’s extreme.