<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: canada-type-gibson, serif;">A Rhyme for Halloween </span></b><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.5pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">By Maurice Kilwein Guevara <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tonight I light the candles of my eyes in the lee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And swing down this branch full of red leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yellow moon, skull and spine of the hare,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Arrow me to town on the neck of the air.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I hear the undertaker make love in the heather;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The candy maker, poor fellow, is under the weather.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Skunk, moose, raccoon, they go to the doors in threes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With a torch in their hands or pleas: "O, please . . ."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Baruch Spinoza and the butcher are drunk:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One is the tail and one is the trunk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Of a beast who dances in circles for beer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And doesn't think twice to learn how to steer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our clock is blind, our clock is dumb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Its hands are broken, its fingers numb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No time for the martyr of our fair town<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Who wasn't a witch because she could drown.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Now the dogs of the cemetery are starting to bark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At the vision of her, bobbing up through the dark.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">When she opens her mouth to gasp for air,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A moth flies out and lands in her hair.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The apples are thumping, winter is coming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The lips of the pumpkin soon will be humming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">By the caw of the crow on the first of the year,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Something will die, something appear.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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