Trick or Treaters have appeared
not at my door but on TV
The Democrats wearing scary masks
faces twisted and darkened
With Republicans in happy family man costumes
pure as a newborn lamb in fresh fallen snow
I’ve tried throwing candy at the screen
but they return every eleven minutes
So I turned off the vast wasteland
to fill in my ballot with sanity
but I’m still worried about the tricks
they’ll play after the election
(for this week’s Living Poetry Prompt: Waste Land)
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
Don’t waste good candy on the television. I haven’t had chocolate in DAYS! ha haGood poem. I’m worried about the tricks too.
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This was hard candy. Scratched the flat screen pretty bad.
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Sad now
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I’d just prepared my Halloween piece, when yours arrived in my inbox – synchronicity……another most excellent piece of writing Bart!
Throwing sweeties at the telly – nice one.
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‘Tis the season, as they say. I’ve got a Halloween Fraiku coming up in a couple of days then an attempt at a scary poem for the 31st.
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PS
It’s not a poem….but it’s about being in the Wasteland…..
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Oh, their skeletons by then, phantoms of the former men. ððĶī
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Excellent point!
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