Why Calaveras?

"Why calaveras?"
they ask me
"Not your tradition"
"Not your people"
"Not your language"
And "Aren't they a
little Satanic?"

"But look!" I answer.
"Where else can you
see the symbol of death
creating the symbol of life?"
Death out of life, life out of death
That's really the whole story,
is it not?