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Halloween 2024

"All politics is apotropaic

Ritual aimed at averting evils."*

Like the skeletons in the garden,

It works by begging Satan’s pardon.

Imagined sins rouse real devils

Costumed to undo the quick—

These horrors medicate the sick!

In their wake this Halloween

Get set to sing a civic scream,

Hoping that it's all a dream.

* Anon. “Greek apotrópaios . . derivation of apotrépein ‘to turn away from, turn aside, avert.’” —Webster’s.


October 30, 2024

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 Cyclops by Christos Saccopoulos, used by kind permission of the sculptor.

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