Do Not Go Meekly Into That Dark Night

Where No Man Has Returned Before ...

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On Halloween it seemed obscene to not accept a dare

and then display, to friends’ dismay, an air of laissez-faire.

Just close your eyes and realize the demons in your mind

will disappear so you won’t hear the screams they leave behind.

Out late at night, an awful fright would take them by surprise.

They chanced to view not one but two bright red and glowing eyes

behind the trees through which a breeze was wafting dark perfume;

its sulf’rous stench made their guts wrench—the fume of dread and gloom.

A graveyard’s not the wisest spot to venture late at night,

but none returned, so we’ve not learned if they all died of fright.

By Ken Gosse

From: United States

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