Trick or Treat

A fowl stench ingested Blythe
sniffed for prey at each door
unseemly calm filled one dark house
its dwellers now at war.

Frank's boozing brought about their strife
he’d earned the couch once more
tucked in for night Sue cursed her spouse
while feet tip-toed cross floor.

To rob or rape was not his life
these two he did abhor
slowly and silent as a mouse
he cast his clothes to floor.

'Midst air of night perversion rife
Sue woke from sleep with horror
at end of bed stood naked louse
her big toe his mouth bore.
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