La Bas Bleu

There were animals galore and any superhero you could think of - though, their hemlines had been sufficiently decreased. We spent Halloween dancing between other bodies to ecstatic electronic sounds strung together into a common beat.
And I paid four dollars for a bottle of water.
And I froze my little, white arms off in the October night.
And I wished I was at home in bed.
But it was still less horrific than the Halloween I spent walking my sister around the neighborhood , or the time in the basement with the girls who cried. Though, it doesn't beat the year spent evading trick-or-treaters at the southern-style crab shack.