The bell rings, summoning your candy
basket, but you stop at the door
to appraise my costume like a house
and find it wanting: "Didn't you
wear that yesterday?" your eyes ask.
But don't you see, my face responds,
it's a mask I don daily, you need
only pull away the first layer
to find pieces never exposed to air.
Why create another for this festival of fear?
Author notes
Prompt: Trick or treat without a costume
A contest entry
- PIF PROMPT CONTEST by penman.
700 points, ended October 3, 2008, 7 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Wonderful
Very well done. Best of luck in the contest
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Great! This is very unique
"only pull away the first layer
to find pieces never exposed to air. "
Best of luck in the contest!
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