ready for halloween

getting ready for halloween? I sure will be leaving the candy alone, no problem so far, I just blur my eyes as we go through the aisles at the supermarket and walmart, blurred passed the colorful boxes and cans of infested poisons, I really am leaving that stuff behind.

But halloween brings a new problem. Ben franklin and santa claus are the same object, it's not human, and it turns out it also comes out at halloween somehow, oh yeah last year it was solstice night on halloween and that is when ben franklin comes out, walks around everywhere, through our homes, for one hour, four times a year. At chiristmas time, as "santa", he steals the cookies.

If you add up all the presents people buy eachother at christmas and compare it to all the gifts under all the christmas trees, you'll find a huge discrepancy, there's double under the trees, been like that for years, it's santa claus leaving magical gifts, it's the fishes and loaves trick from the bible or the candles of chanukkah trick, you know, and he gives presents but he eats cookies, and at halloween he comes through the garden and steals from the fava bean farm, every time. But this year I don't have a farm, I live in a dark house made dark with mites, either bird mites or mange, the dog mite, or some other insidious microscopic infestation, I'm not on the aluminum tables anymore - they broke - I'm on a glass table from grocery outlet for 199 about five weeks ago, It's holding up, but noisy the way it creaks iunder me, this metal and glass table in my wife's bedroom, taking up all the space, I am typing from up here right now, i have a policy about this house, I stay up here, down only to fix food, and eat it up here or outside. Crazy. But no meds and I feel great, no flies on me.

Yeah, get ready cause santa's comin round as the great pumpkin, and you don't get gifts, you loose stuff, and you get it back if you ask for that stuff for christmas, but it's creepy the way that thing just comes in and takes stuff this time of year. Oh well.

-onderdonk