Dia de los Muertos
written by: Sterling Warner
Fleshless Halloween unicorns—
twins—skeletal bones polished, upright,
pristine, pure, waiting on porches
haunting doorsteps, sulking in stalls,
loathing Autumn Acres Hayrides
and Hunter Farm Pumpkin Chunkin
acumen, neither having ever cleansed
polluted streams with a mystical horn,
healed a knight errand’s festering wound,
or reduced poison liquid into potable water.
All Hallows’ Eve mistress, Margaret Hamilton
etched her wicked likeness on Harry & David gourds.
Her green complexion radiates & black conical hat
shields her witchy brow from daylight
ultraviolet rays & midnight lunar halos
as she cackled and cursed at Malibu Barbies
mimicking the antics of Kansas girls in pigtails
unclasping pink collars on their poodles & Chihuahuas
sobering up after Octoberfest bacchanals,
drunken revelries & shameless experimentation
flirting exclusively with silver haired men clothed
in tie-dye shirts who sanctify unicorn gardens.
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