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CHRISTMAS HAS GONE

Christmas has gone like a flatulent fart

      silent night is just a mattress

the hosannas that rang no longer ring true

      three ships sailed over the bright horizon

while the sales are flexing and long overdue.

 

Family groups have dispersed once again

      the elders tucked safely away

an alcoholic haze drifts by

      on the back of the special day.

 

Poin...

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ANTARCTIC CHRISTMAS

At the end of another day

the Antarctic fields tell no story

 

the researchers move slowly

conserving heat in the blistering cold

 

with their late flaring mirages of haloed breath

as the air peels away.

 

      The ice maiden has wandered

      far from her glassy hide

      leaving an impression behind

      where a freezing moon scythe

      divides the ti...

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