Thoughts on Christmas...

12.25  Christmas Aria

All the greatest gifts

under the worlds tallest tree

festooned with every garland

that God ever made

could never make up the gap

that fell between us today.

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12.26  Christmas Duet

And yet, 

your face pulls me into orbit

once again leaving me

dangling here like a mobile

ornament in this wasteland

of paper and bows.

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12.27  Daddy’s Gonna Kill Ralphie

Those sonsabitches

Bumpasses

flashed across the glass

in three rooms

for twelve hours

must have seen the damn thing

seventeen times

and still

I’d turn it on in a second

just to see that boy

under the sink

and the doom in his eyes

all solved

by a mother and her milk.

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