Beware the Beast in your Yeast

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The Cookie Man appeared each Halloween

and joined the children seeking tricks or treats;

long after dark, he’d shadow every teen

once little tykes and parents left the streets.

A gourmet who preferred a strange cuisine,

he never longed for candy bars or sweets;

instead, he favored teenage skin and spleen

and always got his fill of their sweetmeats.

Yet if their mothers didn’t make the dough

so sour, then their fates would not be so.

By Ken Gosse

From: United States

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