Diana Darby ** "I V" ** Intravenous

Halloween Promise

The jack-o-lanterns glow.
The children scream.
Costumes
of witches
and poodles
and pirates.
Fathers dressed like mothers.
Mothers snapping photos.
All
in the neighborhood where every body goes.
There were thousands of us.
Hundreds of bags of candy handed out.
As I stood there,
eating my Kit-Kat and a Reese’s Peanut Butter cup,
I decided
I will trick or treat
till I am ninety.