30 July 2012
Jack Skellington.
The mouth stitched skeleton.
Face as white as a ghost.
The host of the town of Halloween.
With the very most. Tall, bone & lean.
With a wicked touch & smile.
That'd leave a fright & bone chilling screams echoing for miles.
Pumpkins & heads impaled upon the triangular stakes of the black gates.
Witches flying over the moon.
Making their special brews & eye ball stew.
Werewolves & vampires stalk the night.
Monsters waiting in trash cans to give you a fright.
Inside your closets & under your beds.
Tonight, tonight, the night of the dead.
Miss Sally all sewn up, losing her arm and spilling her guts.
Taking a needle & patching it right up.
Throwing heads, joyously spreading the dread.
Up the sky they sing, of dark, dead unspeakable things.
Another year has passed and still Jack feels where's the class?
A lament on a hillside up to the moon.
Hoping things will change soon.
A walk through the forest to clear his mind.
Eyes wide, this can't be, am I blind?
All the years here, spreading the fear.
Now I stumble upon these trees?
Marked with an egg & another a tree.
Not sure what this could mean.
I'll take a peek inside, see what I might find.
Door slowly swings open, pulling me in.
Swirling around & around.
Jack hits the ground.
Landing safely in snow.
Dazed eyes opening to cold.
What's this?
Eyes searching the bright town, hardly making a sound.
Everything so happy & cheery.
I can't see a thing to fear here.
Inspired.
The others must know.
For now we start to prepare for a much brighter show.
Announcing the new instructions.
The monster looked about in frustration.
Had the pumpkin king gone mad?
Filling our ears with ideas so graceful and...bad?
Where's the fun?
Do we watch anyone run?
Wrap people up, snarl our fangs.
Lure you in with our candy & games.
Where's the feast? No trick or treat?
You, you & you go kidnap mister sandyclaws.
He'll bring the presents and draw the straws.
Since after all, this is his holiday.
Without sandyclaws, there's only one way.
Jack to make December 25th his day.
He wears the red & white suit,
Straps on the black boots.
Christmas time he'd make shine.
Nightmare Before Christmas • Opuss № I