68) Halloween

       Wolran Kim

 

Above the children who areholding organs and walking in the streets

Orange pumpkins flylike garnishes

The children who live with the witches raising little wombs

Romping about the torn night fluttering in a Hulk costume

Before Frankenstein kills his bride, before the North Pole freezes into glaciers

Please give us candy, candy, that is not mixed with drugs

That is not soaked in sensual colors

Please give us pure and innocent candy

The reason why the eardrum doesn’t explode

Is because they jump in the Kelts’ legend like a marshmallow

When powdered Cinderella dolls fall over laughs

Please give us candy that is made by the Wizard of Oz

We’ll not cry,so please give us candy

That is paralyzed with pain in the white blood of a vampire

Even after eating candy that is painted with evil flowers like pills

Even rolling over as fallen leaves on the last day of fall

We’re beggar-creatures who eat only expelled seasons

Breaking the dark with teeth of light in the flame of a Jack-o-Lantern

Serving ghosts who are laughing in the shadow of the innocent

Today is the night that disabled minds wear the flesh

Today is the night that disabled bodies go out wholly

After parturient pain passes over the garden as an evil grave

Between colorful hands which tighten upin the dark

Evil spiritsthat are copied cheerfully

Trick or Treat! Trick or Treat!