Sugar High Halloween

I didn’t get very excited about Halloween, no dress up or tricks. grown ups have different reasons for wanting to distance themselves from themselves, jump out of character, put on another face, at least for a night. going around full time as say, the creature from the black lagoon or the mummy would get tedious • what can you really do with webbed fingers but swim in lagoons. maybe you could get away with being dracula for awhile, showing up at the blood bank for laughs but folks there might start to take you seriously, have you arrested. and who really wants to be super anything, man, boy, woman or bowl. what’s that compared to sitting around watching yourself grow old. a new face everyday, although a little make up can work miracles. so i was wondering, what is really meant by have a happy halloween. like don’t worry if death is staring you in the face. all those skeletons and bones, graveyards, ghosts and supernatural mayhem. have a treat, it will all go away. halloween is one of those holidays that takes on more seriousness as you get older. i don’t remember the catholics putting up much of a fuss about it. a little dress up, free candy, a sneak peek at lucifers crowd. we’ll have you back in the yoke by morning • remember, we’re the ones with exorcisms in our back pocket. so like all things long lasting it starts when you are young. i don’t remember any explicit explanation, halloween was just there. i remember we took merda la dog wrapped in tin foil and dropped it in someones bag, how we found dog shit is a little hazy. egging and toilet papering were in back when halloween was a delinquents holiday. now it’s 12 foot internally lit pumpkin balloons that are always looking flaccid and animatronic skeletons doing a death dance on the lawn. the candy is bland corporate everything tastes the same chocolate in name only. no popcorn balls • circus peanuts • peanut butter kisses • mr good bar • mallow cups • twizzlers • buns • real peanut butter cups • candy corn • dots • atomic fireballs • orange and black jelly beans and more. on a good night you could fill half a grocery bag full, so there’s that halloween. the other one is the fact fall is closing out, leaves are almost gone. squirrels are stocking up, winter darkness is on the way. the planet takes a turn. we are down here doing a little boogie woogie to hold it off but it’s for naught. mother nature doesn’t get scared, she’s the one that does the scaring. so that’s where the candy comes in. we can have a great sugar high halloween • while the climate changes before our eyes. trick or treat • ain’t she sweet.

atomthought • artist@Large