Halloween is over.
The time has come
to remove all hooded cowls
and to look blearily
into the cool November dawn
and say
“Enough of disguises.
Let us not talk falsely
for the hour is too damned early
for such foolishness.”

It is time for decisions.
It is time for culmination.
It is time for thoughts to be completed
and disagreements to cease.
Let us agree
that all the activities of late
should fade
into a somewhat more civil state.
Let us
please
let us have peace
and put away the fright masks
for at least a year.