All hallows eve enchanted dark
A stroll I took in chill
To see the children on their lark
And thus a pipe to kill
The sunset orange watching pass
And night on coming strong
When deep from Mission hill and grass
I heard a haunted song
Then followed I this tunèd curse
Until i found the source
And deep beneath Dolores firs
I saw a morbid course
And dancing came the doomèd mob
In pairs of flesh and bone
A line was paced to plaintive sob
And cold as chiseled stone
Now though i thought in fright to flee
Before my feet would fly
Their rhythmed steps came round me
That each might pass me by
And silent were the corpses all
But skeletons well said
Without the breath or fleshy pall
Upon their bony head
They spoke addressing me by name
Well done to find us here
And will you make our chorus fame
In gruesome verse appear?
I nodded silent as I typed
In thumbs upon my screen
unbidden verse my phone had striped
In pixeled eerie sheen
The first pair came in courtly swirl
And round me then to go
The bone man led a regal girl
Whose years made dancing slow
An empress grand she ruled the globe
A century bears her mark
Now unamused in weeds her robe
Death has a Victory stark
The second pair now came aside
In black and white a boy
The bones and he hob’d horses stride
With a candle as a toy
At altar knelt he near the south
And well he served the priest
But now for prayers he has no mouth
We take both great and least
The third pair came a man in suit
With marching hails the chief
and wearing chains of free world’s loot
The leader of their grief
We get them all said clacking jaw
In top hat or in none
No leader yet the world has saw
Who has this dance not done
And next there came in sleeves ore long
A song book in her hand
The lead soprano with her song
And shin bones for her band
Her voice ere piped on eagles wings
Her hands on guitar strummed
But deeply buried graved things
Like songs have her made dumb
Up came an athlete with a bat
A beard and muscles slack
The dodger blue upon his hat
Was fading now to black
In leaving Brooklyn bone man said
The team betrayed their home
And round the world the cursed dead
as traitors made to roam
A priest came next his back to me
His robes arrayed for Mass
In Dance his face I n’er did see
Tho him did thrice me pass
His liturgy was drama trim
The showman ever played
And so in death his penance grim
His face away is staid
A tech bro came: lyft, scooter, vape
And options like the dew
the ghosts of start ups round him drape
and dreams are all askew
A Jesuit next came down the pike
Accompanying his charge
No heresy he didn’t like
His tent was mighty large
A politician found her mark
and made a Arabesque
So firm her planks her promise, hark!
To voters now addressed
An Abbot tall with croizered hand
was further down the queue
A skeleton did by him stand
as with all the others too
Then Death herself the reaper grim
astride the path did stand
and all around her they raised a hymn
this morbid bony band
We get them all We slay them all
And none can say us nay
We wake them all we take them all
as night ore-takes the day
And last alone some lonely bone said to a novice he was sent Tis I I said and dropped this phone and dancing off we went
Doxos 