Halloween 'Humbug'

The little girl who lives next door, she rang our front door bell
I turned and said to Brother Jed, "here comes our night of hell"
for clutched there in her arms I saw, a pumpkin for our house
a face, all nicely carved, and which to me looked like a mouse

"It's Halloween" I said to Jed, "and kids will fill the street
all decked out in their costumes and all yelling 'Trick or Treat'
and you and I'll be shut downstairs, commencing 5 o'clock
while all the ghosts and goblins, they all troop around the block"

Resigned we settled in downstairs and listened for a while
as kids kept coming to the door, enduring our exile
young Jed went to his basket which is underneath Dad's desk
and still the kids came visiting, in costumes quite grotesque

Eventually, by my watch, 8.30 did arrive
the door to upstairs opened wide, we'd managed to survive
another Halloween parade, of kids and fireworks too
and that, dear friends, concludes this verse, I bid you all adieu..

Zak... Oct. 31/ 97