Name Brand Jewelry

Haunting

Plastic pumpkins stare with yellow eyes;
trash bag ghosts crinkle in the breeze;
composite acrylic gravestones glow
with acid green bulbs, tethered
to a vinyl sided house
by an extension cord.

Plastic spiders dangle on clear fishing line
from glow-in-the-dark polyester webs
while children in masks and wigs
reach for cellophane-wrapped candy
in a black bake-lite bowl
made to look like a cauldron.

Molded rats and styrofoam skulls look on
while a plastic CD spins sound effects from
speakers with lucite casings.

Next week,
the sturdy trash bins will bulge
with leftover holiday
until a man wearing gloves crushes it all
into a landfill grave that someday
will came back to haunt us.

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