In “Halloween in the Anthropocene,” Craig Santos Perez uses the structure of his poem to make his point. Although it is a prose poem, it is still separated into stanzas. These stanzas do not follow the structure of the sentences, but rather the structure of his argument. For example, Perez urges us to “[p]raise the souls of black // boys, enslaved by supply chains” (3-4) through not one, but two stanzas. In the first stanza, Perez sets up the image of life in the Anthropocene (also known as the Twenty-first Century Bottleneck): “Darkness spills across the sky like an oil plume” (1). The aforementioned quote transitions from the imagery of the night of the first stanza to the slavery depicted in the second stanza. Although the sentences