Unlocked by Ryan G. Van Cleave

Author:Ryan G. Van Cleave
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2011-06-11T22:00:00+00:00

HALLOWEEN

* * *

Though far too old to trick or treat,

I still hustled door to door

with Blake, both of us

dressed in bedsheets

with snipped-out eyeholes,

ghosts à la Charlie Brown.

We moaned and oooOOOOed

and Blake clanked a bike chain

he brought along,

which scared all heck

out of some third graders—

two Spidermans, a hobo,

and some kind of orange lizard.

Our paper grocery sacks

filled fast with candy,

though most knew we

were too tall, too old

to really be out. But no one

minded since we were just

loading up on sugar and not

hitting car windows with eggs.

For three hours, we were regular kids

doing regular stuff,

having a good time.

For three hours, I didn’t think

about stolen keys, guilt, Becky Ann,

or what might be wrong with my friend.

For three hours, it was the happiest

I’d been in forever, unfazed

even when Blake said,

You ever dream that you wake up

and the whole world’s gone?

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