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Advent
Advent
Just imagine
Lying in a crib of straw
Staring at a star
Hanging over the barn
That whistles
With the soughing wind
Prizing at the flimsy wood
That keeps the night at bay
Just imagine
Your future laid before you
In pre-ordained days
That smell of blood and betrayal
The multi-paternal conundrum
That plays upon your mind
As you carve wood
...Monday 12th December 2016 3:51 pm
Anti-Christ(mas)
Anti-Christ(mas)
Santa Claus isn’t real -
there, I’ve gone and said it.
Just some smart-arsed marketing ploy
to stress your Christmas cards of credit,
an old Bavarian legend
glammed up and pushed by Coke
to give a job each yuletide
to some fat, be-whiskered bloke
who likes a little tipple
and knee jogging some pre-pubescent cutie -
under any other circumstance
you’d report him to pro...
Wednesday 10th December 2014 5:03 pm
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