Come, little children

Don't be naughty

You've been invited

To a slumber party

 

Where ghosts come to play

And opened caskets fly

Where the spirits holler

And the children will die

 

So, come over and visit

And don't be afraid

It's only your grandma

Her body decayed

 

© 2026 Jeffrey Pipes Guice

Photograph by Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine. 1957.