humbug

cartoon by Chris Sims

yeah they're coming around again

all my friends

with spiced wine hot toddies

and all the myriad problems of

early christmas shopping

i told them christmas is dead

and god too for that matter

they've got telephones dripping

from their greazy fingers

they love to make calls to

their loved ones back home

and talk for hours

i told them i don't have the infrastructure

to talk long on the phone

i'm too weak to maintain

a two-way conversation

that's okay they love me as

i am broken at the kneecaps

they can manage the call

all by themselves if necessary

ho ho ho they stammer

ringing my bells

as if the messiah of hope came

and lit a 26-hr candle

and when i'm quiet for a couple of days

it all fades back into the woodwork

where it came from

that's okay with me

because i have nothing left to say

no christmas presents

no wishful thinking

no thinking at all to be honest