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Halloween


31/10/03

my costume was wide enough but 
                 ridiculously long 
like slender man 
             if he was all 
                           flaccid-pant-leg 
and not 
              u know   
                                         \ slender 
                                         or
                                         \ a man
when you grow up fat u learn to adapt to 
              make urself small   to be invisible 
but u just want to have fun 
                                                             / are you sure you need that many 
          
i take my hand back from the pumpkin that’s all 
disembowelled all plastic 
all grimace
             the motion-censored witch cackles behind me
i get given two apples at the next house
and i wish i went as a ghost

31/10/10

both our mums say we’re almost 
too old to trick or treat 
so we gotta 
make the most of it 
we want
free lollies
we go as an angel and a devil bc we’re best friends
i’m the angel ofc 
i go to a catholic school and i am too 
scared to break any rules 
our spaghetti straps 
feel scandalous and i feel the 
way my body moves in this costume in
excruciating detail
i compare myself to her
she moves in a way i 
will not let myself 
move
later that night i 
hold hands with a cute boy 
who tells me how pretty my face is
i blush and he walks me home
the next day he texts to ask if i think 
she would go out with him 
lol

 

31/10/21

finally 
the time has come 

i will be slutty 
i will be so very slutty 

everyone will hit on me and 
that girl who has been flirting with me all night 

when i ask to kiss her 
she will definitely not reject me 

she will definitely not say that
she has a boyfriend i promise

i will be a slutty witch with a tight 
slutty dress that shows off my big slutty stomach

and my big slutty tits and i will smile
bc baby it’s halloween and i can be anything


Featured photo Photo by Aphiwat Chuangchoem on Pexels.


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