Everybody knows and has known for a long time
Hallowe'en is the Beat Generation holiday
I remember seeing a neighbor kid dressed
as a beatnik in the late 50s
I've been Beat ever since
In 1978 I was a punk priest
Subliminal hands
waved me down
as I approached my train
Come inside to see
haunted second-hand stuff
Set this up on someone's doorstep
ring the doorbell and scram
maybe light it on fire first
That will trick-or-treat them
Costume for a tea-party girl
I'd rather go to
the Vampires'
cocktail party
Quantified aggression
Tall woman in leggings
with a bag of bananas
A sinister busride
awaits
Haunted frame shop
on College avenue
Alongside the sidewalk
disappearing
Ancestral portraiture
Happens every year
giant killer robots
head downtown
Double reflection
baffling even to
a double-visioned Flaneur
Every square foot of pavement
is a type of crypt
Drive-by tunnel vision
in haunted Oakland
October 2016
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