Saturday 14 December 2013

Christmas folly

"Had a nice Christmas?"
"Yes, not bad, and you?"
"Yes, not bad," she said.
And so it goes along.

Relatives all meet, and smile,
relatively boring, all the while,
eating enough to sink a famine ship,
drinking so much, the oceans start to dip.

Bringing a glittering bonhomie to play.
Claiming false Christianity, one day.

Desperately buying, into debt,
wrapping up gifts, for people they forget,
jollificating winter frost, with holly,

toying with tinsel pleasure, hopes and folly.

27.12.92.bk9/36

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