Coming On Christmas (once again)

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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2015-12-22 05:27 PM

We are deep into Silly Season,
caves of dream merchants churn again
almost spinning in a whirl,
all awash in pricey glitter
naught but empty fluff in sight,
like Congress packing promises about what's right,
about the latest made up fright,
for home where they can wear each pretty lie
dressed in mismatched ribbons or an ugly painted tie;

so it's coming on Christmas
or so Joni used to sing
way back when
she was just a bright eyed slip of girl,
Tin Angel waitress full of her own thing,
purring empty promise of delight.

Can we still say that?
Or is this another thought banned
beyond meaning,
awareness crime that needs cleaning,
a casual gender diminutive
and those two "C" words
that could bring potential images of infamy,
maybe light a neural synapse,
maybe even two.

Wipe out all errant thought !
We ought to have grown up more than this by now,
don't you think?

Sorry,
forgot we're not supposed to think
for ourselves;
I better watch the lamestream News,
they'll feed me polling tested clues
so I'll know what I should choose
to hold the views I should hold,
accepted
comfortably dissected
already pre-digested snooze
to keep me righteous in my views,
‘cause gods forbid
I might come upon an idea on my own,
based only upon honest information.

Oh no, there's one of those words again
when will these traps of treachery end?

Perhaps, oh Lord perhaps,
after I am glutted by the Hollow Days.

©2007, 2010, 2013, 2015 by icebox

[This message has been edited by icebox (12-22-2015 11:57 PM).]

Ticklefingers
Senior Member
Posts 710
Louisiana

1 posted 2015-12-22 07:01 PM

I left those days far behind me. If I told you how little I am exposed to it all and how detached I've become, you likely wouldn't believe me. Still, I like to see people having a good time of it and I try to be a 'to each, his own' kind of guy.

I always enjoy reading your poetry.

88's friend

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

rainyday
Member
Posts 304
Heartland USA

2 posted 2015-12-22 07:08 PM

Ice, What a sharp..sharp wit you have here.
Love reading your work.

rainy

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2015-12-25 08:31 PM

At very least, Christmas is a brief and nebulous time when more folks
open their 'shut up' hearts to their fellow creatures ... for a little while
at least. (so there is perhaps some true 'magic' amid all the mythology,
religious overburden, and hyper-commercialism) ...

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