Happy Halloween! Enjoy this poem, and share it with everyone you can so poetry takes its place as a Halloween treat!
Halloween Party
We’re having a
Halloween party at school.
I’m dressed up
like Dracula. Man, I look cool!
I dyed my hair
black, and I cut off my bangs.
I’m wearing a
cape and some fake plastic fangs.
I put on some
makeup to paint my face white,
like creatures
that only come out in the night.
My fingernails,
too, are all pointed and red.
I look like I’m
recently back from the dead.
My mom drops me
off, and I run into school
and suddenly feel
like the world’s biggest fool.
The other kids
stare like I’m some kind of freak—
the Halloween
party is not till next week.
by Kenn Nesbitt
from When
the Teacher Isn’t Looking from Meadowbrook Press
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