02 January 2011

Song for a Christmas Past

(In which the speaker belies the wonder of his own experience of seasonal bliss, as evidenced in the family picture appearing just below said yuletide cynicism - Merry Happy Joyous to One and All Greetings!)

What time of the year
is it? They ask us all
from houses of glass and wonder
Their Cameron Diaz eyes
lording it over us
all winking, blinking, nodding
in pantomime sincerity:
Give to us
So that we
May give too
Oh please, you wondrous holy host of the world!
You!
You who are our valentines of peace
If only just this once
your prevision would be ours
you too would see
that the world can be
saved by money
and insincerity
For ours is the kingdom
the power
and the glory
forever and ever.
Amen.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Nice. Sorry I didn't follow through on the Skype over the holidays idea - I did think about you quite often, but didn't when I was in front of the flickering rectangle of LCD goodness.

Glad to see you got some skiing in - we are getting another batch of snow today after losing the previous accumulation to a couple of rainy above zero days. A person could become bi-polar in this weather...

Hope you're enjoying being back in the classroom. We should Skype sometime in January.

Tim.