October Challenge - The Lake Behind the Barn (A Poem)

Whoo, some catching up to do after a couple days of relaxing between huge orders! Okay, here we go, another Halloween-themed poem for a belated Day 8 of the writing challenge. This one's a homage to those stories adults tell kids, rumors and legends that swirl around small towns and you grow up wondering--was it true?
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The Lake Behind the Barn
“In the muddy lakebehind the ole barn--a lake or a pond?--that barn no one’s usedfor a decade or two,the one all chipped blue paintwith the rusted roo...