sara chickering helps me dress up
like i am a goblin
and i do dance through the doors of the schoolhouse
and i do sing a goblin song
in my clothes of green that sara chickering did sew for me.
leanora sutter did dress like a gypsy
and she had sittings by a cauldron
where she did stir the air inside with a big shovel
and she did tell the fortunes to the bob-haired
chatterbox girls
and now they do not have fearings
of being old maids
because leanora did tell them
it would not be so.
the room did have streamers of black and orange.
and owls and black cats and witches on their brooms had flyings
up the walls.
we did eat of carrot cake and cheese sandwiches and
we did drink pots and pots of cocoa
and i don’t ever have rememberings of so much fun.