Bark's Doggone Halloween

Bark didn't like being made a pirate. What was he going to do about it?

Bark didn’t feel like barking at all.
His bark came out sounding quite small.

They’d dressed him up in Pirate clothes and a wig.
The previous Halloween, they’d turned Bark into a pig.

Halloween just wasn’t his gig.
The whole holiday system was rigged.

Why couldn’t he just be a dog?
Anything else should be outlawed.

When night came, Bark sat on the porch like a log.
To the trick-or-treater’s he gave scarce a nod.

His owners forgot he was outside.
That really hurt Bark’s inner pride.

It was midnight and nothing stirred.
Then a burglar’s noise at a window he heard.

Bark barked as loud as he could.
His bite on the burglars behind was quite good.

It lifted the bad man in the air
And deposited him on the back stairs.

Bark had saved the family treasure.
They were thankful beyond measure.

The burglar got a new prisoner costume to wear.
Bark, no longer a pirate, wore a heroes ribbon beyond compare,

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