Halloween

Leaning on a lamp post.
Spiky features sharpened by impatience.
Waiting by the traffic on Saturday night.
Night hawkers filed by:
Girls in ripped tights and powdered wigs.
Boys with bloody gashes smeared on bare chests.
An awkward little set up.
They'd known each other for ten years.
Always known they bored each other to tears.
Wincing at an over loud laugh
looking anywhere but in
He wondered why she dressed like a drag Queen.
Ten minutes went by then half an hour.
It wasn't getting anymore exciting.
He and she bailed on a night's accidental burning.

It wasn't getting easier

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