“Secrets in the Shadows: The Enigmatic Lives of the Bellringers Unveiled”
That rascally boy and that tomboy girl
ringing doorbells and running away
snapping cheesy smiles of frankensense and monster myrrh,
unwrapping presents on a vague week-long recordless birthday.
OAPs singing songs from The Great War
keeping everyone awake in the middle of the night
crying out for water, rebelliously bedridden, with a churchful in store
leaving behind a haunted house in the sticks under the January moonlight.
Rationally, makes sense through and through.
Emotionally, leaves hearts full.
There”s nothing you can do.
Destination dead end day in Morgue Street
at the end of something as fleeting as cruel.
