the size of an exercise ball
hung up in a shopping mall.
Christmas is a one-armed,
chipped-nosed,
chubby-cheeked
Napoleonic soldier.
Christmas is a matter of panem et circenses.
Christmas is plastic wrap
that each year stretches deeper
into the hungry throat of November.
Christmas is when it hurts more
to cop a fine for fare evasion.
Christmas is a middle-class window
into an African famine.
Christmas is polystyrene Victorian lamps,
fibreglass snow
and the smell of hotdog water.
Christmas is straight out of a Hogarth.
Christmas is a power saw wound.
Christmas is three wise men
with eyes popping out of their heads.
Christmas is a xenophobic story
about Santa Claus nailed to a cross
in a Japanese department store.
Christmas is a child getting a smack.
Christmas is a song on rotation.
Christmas is a song proclaiming that
the best things in life are totally free.
Christmas is a cynic
with a mouth full of cashews.
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