Re-Living Christmas: Cherished moments and memories #6

I happened to be in western City

In late October, on assignment.

As I was exploring the City

I noticed something weird

That I had not seen anywhere before.

At the front porch of most houses

Was a huge orange pumpkin (couldn’t tell if it was real or a replica),

And an eerie looking mask, skeleton, clown

Or caricature of some monster.

Some houses had monstrous spiders

Scaling their walls!

It was like a scene from a horror movie!

Witches…I thought!

But it can’t be all of them, I reasoned.

I texted home excitedly,

That I was in a strange City of weirdos.

It’s celebrated sometimes in November.

You’ll be lucky to see it.’

And sure enough

On the night of the last day of October,

There was the most amazing street costume parade

I’ve ever seen.

I walked the street for hours

Lost in the sea and throng of revelers

Marveling at it all.

Most of the costume was ghastly and hideous,

Some was lustfully sexy

And some was freakish, completely out-of-this-world!

And as I went to sleep that night

A question nagged at me,

And has nagged me ever since:

And why have we never

Celebrated it in our home?’

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