Halloween is importing horror in October
just as in August we import summer
in a land without spring, autumn, winter.
What next? Thanksgiving Day or July Fourth?
What the hell wrong with we? Maybe is time,
with all the cable programming and crime,
to change we nationality and birth
certificate from Trinidad and Tobago
and be known, henceforth, wherever we go,
as the United Island States of America.
I say what the hell foolishness is this,
this wicked, immoral, Devil business
of imperial cultural interest?
I say, go to hell with Halloween propaganda.
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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