The POTW: Verse Til It Hurts

This is the weekend that Daylight Saving Time ends in my country, a golden opportunity for me to compose yet another cranky poem about it, and to make an impassioned plea for everyone to begin using International Color Time instead (see www.phrenopolis.com/colorclock/ for details).

However, when I mentioned to my wife that I was going to have to write about either Daylight Saving or gastroenteritis, the speed and tone with which she requested gastroenteritis led me to believe that *perhaps* I've flogged the other topic a bit much. Perhaps. And given that I didn't deliver a poem last week, for Halloween Day of all days (it was kind of a busy weekend), I decided to do this little bit of rhyme, detailing a complaint from which you yourself may very well be suffering right now, following a Halloween scare:

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