Pumpkinella -- Wild Thing of the Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkinella was the Wild Thing of the Pumpkin Patch.  

Photo by Visitor7

Nights, she'd string together a boa of leaves, wrap it around her neck a few times, and take off for an evening of drinking, dancing, and driving the farm cart fast.

Photo: Geograph Britain and Ireland

Her name was legendary among pumpkin patches near and far,

 and many a pumpkin in distant lands longed to spend just one night
with the vivacious hard-living Pumpkinella.

Then, one fine fall day, a car pulled up beside the pumpkin patch, disgorging what appeared to be an army of small children.  
Each had a quest: 
to choose the perfect pumpkin to carve for Halloween.

And what could be more perfect...
than Pumpkinella?
She was chosen quickly, unceremoniously
dumped in a wagon, and hauled to the
checkout where here measurements
were taken and she was sold for a handful
of coins.


The other pumpkins wept.

That night Pumpkinella underwent a ritual endured

by so many of her sisters before her.

Her brains were scooped out, dumped on baking sheet,

and toasted.

Lips that were once the finest in Pumpkin History 

were re-carved into a crooked grin.

Her eyes, once long-lashed and outlined

in vegan organic eyeliner

were now defined by the blade of a pumpkin carving set.

A candle was placed where her brain once resided.

Pumpkinella was Pumpkinella no more, merely a front

porch jacqueline o' lantern.

But when the festivals were over, and Pumpkinella

was tossed in the compost heap, a few seeds who

has been missed in the mass scooping trickled out...

to make new Pumpkinellas who would dance and drink and sing once again.

Pumpkinella can be found on etsy.