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in a moment i'll get out of bed,
bundle myself up in three layers of clothing,
go line up at the starbucks down the street
for my morning cappuccino, enduring that
campy elf hat adorning the head
of the barrista complementing her forced smile
if she's not too busy to give one.
walking back, hands trying to protect my cup
from the cold, i'll see schoolkids on their way
to drudgery
today with a somewhat lighter heart
and gifts and cards tucked into their schoolbags.
~MERRY CHRISTMAS~ will shout the display
of a passing bus, as if
i didn't own a calendar
or were living under a rock.
the cop at the intersection will conduct traffic
with oversized candy-cane sticks.
passing under an arcade, i'll look up:
mistletoe, right underneath a speaker
blaring baby-boomer christmas muzak
because nothing says (or croons, heaven forbid) Christmas!
better than recycled One-Day-A-Year-Low-Prices!-
Come-Get-It-While-It-Lasts!-Christmas-Clearance-Sale!
-announcing commercialized earworms.
i'll get up in a minute to face
Christmas! plastered on billboards and banners
and metro ads and tv commercials and posters
and flyers, everywhere selling some-
thing or some-event or some-ideology or some-bullshit,
none of them really getting it
or getting down to it and saying simply
Christmas.
sleep dissipating, this is what i foresee: Christmas,
turned into Christmas!, leaving me
only christmas.
another ten minutes wouldn't hurt . . . .
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