A Better Christmas
so, a time for warm memories?
fond loved ones from the past?
Christmas 2019 one to forget
I thought it might prove my last
parrot strangled in trimmings
wife, shopping after a row, got
took short, skidded off the path
tree trimmed by a snow plough
house got burgled Christmas Eve
at which your festive spirit palls
he nicked the replacement spruce
complete with my brand new balls
I'd run out of my piles ointment
was too chicken to kill the turkey
so my Christmas lunch a funereal
farce, gnawing away at beef jerky
went on a New Year blind date
she claimed her name was Tessa
wondered about heavy bruistles
he was a Mexican cross-dresser
got done for possession, cocaine
Manuel had slipped in my coat
caught bird flu from my barber
his DTs nearly did for my throat
surely this Christmas cant be worse
despite these COVID complications
I've bought a Chinese blow-up doll
its in lieu of my usual fornications
made in Wuhan, top of the range
she's bouncy, I call her Miley Cyrus
whoa! Christmas got cursed again
she's gone and given me the virus!
Aviva Rifka Bhandari
Thu 24th Dec 2020 13:12
I'm looking forward to hearing about all your misadventures with the Easter Bunny too.