The day after the eve ... 

When all those tricksters heave

Rolls of toilet tissue and shave cream

Amidst broken bottles also seen ...



The harmless pranks, mixed in with the mean

Inconsiderate minds - not at all clean ...

Children ... proving they truly are that, even now, still ...

Even though they'd like us to see them as ... 

                                       over the hill ...



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

11:27pm Sunday, November 1st, 1998