thirty
30. (10/13/09)
Halloween Everywhere
a nationwide tactic.
Denver, Colorado.
A husband goes into the bathroom early in the morning.
He shaves.
His wife walks in.
Just like any other day.
He cuts himself shaving.
Blood sprays everywhere.
She screams.
He tells her it’s a joke.
She hits him in the chest.
They laugh.
New York, New York.
A man gets hit by a car.
A woman screams.
A man runs up to him to help.
The man says he’s dead.
There’s nothing they can do.
The police come.
An ambulance.
A coroner.
They zip the man up.
The bag moves.
The man gets up.
Undead.
He bites someone.
That someone turns into a zombie.
They attack the nation,
secretly telling each person they pretend to bite
that it is all part of an elaborate hoax
that the united states is playin on
germany
great Britain
canada
mexico
and france.
San Francisco, California
A woman enters a blood bank,
long white fangs protruding from underneath her lips.
She walks into the storage room and drinks packs of blood
By poking into them wither pointed teeth.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
A pumpkin rises from the earth.
A man on a horse, his head gone, picks it up.
Turns out his head is just underneath the jacket, so it looks fake.
It’s not real.
He laughs in the night and children all over Iowa wet their pants.
A man in Alabama puts razor blade in the candy he gives out,
but that happened forty years ago and he only gave it to his nephew.
The nation is terrified.
A man in Vermont kills twenty people using an ax,
And hides the bodies under his floor boards.
A man in Texas ties his wife to a radiator
And spits on her face.
A woman in Kentucky
Castrates her husband and runs to a dumpster behind
A seven eleven to dispose of his manhood.
A transvestite in Salt Lake City hires a man from
Demmin, Germany to come to her and murder her on webcam.
A convicted sex offender in Portland, Oregon
Watches your children cross the street wearing
Their “pretty Halloween costumes.”
A woman in Atlanta, Georgia
Apologizes over and over.
“I’m sorry…I’m sorry…”
for something she’s sure she never did.
A friend of a friend in a suburb in Michigan
Accidentally shoots his father.
They were hunting deer.
A tornado touches ground in Tennessee,
But no one sees it.
A UFO flies over a small house in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
Or at least the two kids lying outside watching the sky think it is.
For a moment, they catch their breath, terrified, but excited, at the endless possibilities and hope this world brings.
And for a moment, everything is okay again.
