How to YAWP

I'm going to be Petra Andalee for Halloween. Or my version of it, I guess (of both Petra and Halloween). I usually spend Halloween nights watching a movie (that has almost nothing to do with the holiday), but this year, I'll have to amend that plan. Darn holiday on a sunday! They should fix the date of Halloween on, like, the last Friday or Saturday of October. I think I'd prefer Saturday, because Saturdays are just good days to celebrate things. And because the letter S makes me think of Spooky, Scary, and Sinister things (alliteration FTW!).

Speaking of rules of poetry: my English teacher is a HUGE fan of Walt Whitman, and is a great supporter of the thought that people should yawp barbarically now and then. If you don't know what or how to produce your "barbaric yawp" (a term Whitman actually came up with, in his "Song of Myself", Leaves of Grass, #52), then please refer to the following guide:

1. Make yourself stand out, either by standing on a chair, waving your arms around, or just staring creepily at someone.
2. Take a deep breath (recommended, but not required).
3. Yell/proclaim/sound out the word "YYYYAAAAWWWWWWWWWP!", with emphasis on making a gutteral sort of sound and the "AW" syllable of the word.
4. Yes, you have to say "YAWP".
5. Well, technically there's another way to yawp barbarically--you can just express yourself creatively, either through a painting, a story, a song, or anything else that is a representation of a part of yourself.

And there you go! This could work for a "trick" on Halloween if the people don't give you candy. Much more environmentally friendly than TPing or forking or egging someone's house. My English teacher actually had us line up around the windows of the classroom next to us and YAWP into the room. The kids in the room stared at us like we'd grown two heads each. We exited quickly.

Speaking of Hallo-school things: My chemistry teacher decided to introduce us to a bunch of really awful chemistry puns, such as:

"What do you call a prisoner in a funny clown costume?" A SILICON (silly con, get it?)
"Everything but the kitchen...." ZINC (you should know this one)
"What do they do with dead people?" They BARIUM (ahahahaha)
etc.

Back to Petra Andalee! All I really need is her checkered coat, for which I'm using a long checkered zip-up collared shirt-jacket-thing. And then her high-waisted pants, a black belt, black fake leather shoes, and a white button-down collared shirt. Voila! What are you dressing up as?