October 3, 2016.

SPOOKTOBER STORY #2:

I awoke with a start
A noise! A clatter!
I climbed to my roof
A hatch! A ladder!

Outside in the dark
A figure! A shape!
My mouth hung wide
Aghast! Agape!

For what I saw there
In dimness! In gloom!
Was a hunched old owl
A symbol! Of doom!

"Hello Mr. Owl," as my heart
Did thump! Did thump!
"Hoot hoot!" said the owl
I cry! I jump!

"Leave me alone!"
I howled! I cried!
But alas! by that time
I'd croaked! I'd died!

Now I perch here too
An omen! A curse!
And hoot death at those
Who I think are the worst!