This is not like other Hallowe’ens.

This year, the spirits of the Dead
Are so recently dead
That they haven’t the chance
To return in the night--
They don’t know they’ve died--
So they live with us still.

[Lewiston, Maine.
“Meat Assaults” in Ukraine.
The Holit Kibbutz.
Al-Zarah, Gaza.]

The world is too much with us,
Televised with people
Alive every night,
They live in blue light.
They whisper to us urgently,
Where are we?

What have you done?