Trick or Treat for UNICEF?

HALLOWEEN is Coming TRICK or TREAT for UNICEF

H A L L O W E E N

I thought I saw a goblin on Main Street yesterday ...
Then there were vampires, and spooks, and jack-o-lanterns.
Windows ran with cotton candy; really cobwebs they say!
Bats flew, blackening doorways and curtains. Cats in turn
Were arched in back; spitting; snarling; ... all black of course!
Sundown was coming, and the moon rose in full amber,
Catching a witch, astride a broom, shreiking "No remorse!" ...
For all in sight and sound! (Who could not clearly,
Stay ... safely, in or out of ghostly evil-doers way.)
Some in "extortion", called a "treat"; paid at the doors.
Your's or mine ... made no difference; save the "trick"
Did not then occur ... UNICEF? anyone? A nice treat for sure.
Better than candy for one without bread, or sick
In childhood poverty ... or unable to gamble
That in a nation of prosperity; a goblin dressed ramble;
Would fill a bag with sweets or some goods that were handy.
Lest their little ones now in the street; extort like "jackboots"
In some self-centered turn. Please collect for some other time!
When, where life wasn't good; or was something seen in dread.
Make a basket; fill a sack; get a kid out of his shed!
It's for good; it's for the best! Trick or Treat for UNICEF!
And if these seasonal poems one might dread ...
Well, the day or so after Halloween's the Day of the Dead!

With Halloween (October 31), coming; and "Guy Fawkes Day" (Novemer 4), too ... those efforts for candy & treats, and "pennies for the Guy"; can also make some difference for the United Nations Childrens' Emergency Fund ... tap the link for UNICEF, please!

UNICEF
Re-printed for the perennial appeal by Scott M. Connolly