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December 2024 Collage Poem: Play the Odds

What happens if Terry the giant does

not touch wood what would Sally say…

but still he drinks his ever so nice tea.

 

What would happen if Father Christmas didn’t

stop drinking Jack Daniels throughout the rest

of the year?

 

Drunken Santa is crashing through the snow

You’re all on the naughty list

 

Pensioners too cold to take a stand

munch a million bags of Mo...

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December Collage Poem: Waves

Swansea waves words at passing poets

 

The twenty-fifth day is long and in others souls,

A week later we enter the next chapter with

New raging goals.

 

Kissing capitalism's ass and not mine

Highway traffic moves in waves,

Or should that be it crawls like a crab

 

Marrying a woman from East Texas

She cooked Christmas pudding for dinner each night

In peanut and r...

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December Collage Poem: Disappointment - Part 2

Crossing over reflections

Mirroring his own life

 

Life is disappointing; but love is always

beautiful, even across dreary railway tracks

kniving through his childhood

 

Hair kissed under Homeric stars

Whatever the weather.

 

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