I remember liking Halloween
when I was a kid in high school.
Too old to trick or treat. Put the Model A
on top of the school house, maybe. Everybody had
indoor plumbing, so there weren't any privies.
Some people still had clotheslines. I had a clothesline
when Balder was a baby. I remember frozen diapers on it.
I remember not having the money to buy a tank of kerosene.
I remember being out of work. The death of the hired man.
I was a hired man to my family. Sorry. Walking around with
the poems roaring in my head. Robert Frost's family went crazy
or committed suicide. And the holidays were always gruesome.