#723 - comfort and joy

 

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comfort and joy

a cut-up with favourite familiar tunes

 

 

who had this ridiculous idea?

a rooster rise king thing

someone will save me

 

on the feast of deep

self-solsticing, all bake

thousands of years

before, done without

 

here comes the christmas bunny

all jester jokes

bells on end

wise, wonderful

 

merry and bright

the turnaround bub

lay all around chocker with

the people’s

 

tanenbaum o

scarlet standard

crisp and even

out of the east

how long to soak the cake?

 

grandkids gathered round

and some of their wee bairns too

hide chaos of it, run amok

pudding and deck halls

till custard, with cherry too – glacé

bring me my myrrh and yonder

fill planes, clog the ways despite

westward leading, still proceeding

 

though cowards flinch and traitors sneer

two by two they came aboard

 

a crusade for the wine, the beer

a Breughel of cliché

 

I nest and lay the christmas egg

gathering of turkey too

all festively arrayed in chorus

three-wise – that’s the spell

 

took to my pole, dear elves

and vixen, the blisterer

drum me in

lost uncles, aunts

 

do you follow the story so far?

 

a joy to world it

angels

where glory shone

ivy league holly

 

all wear a crown!

shadow a star to its mystery

sing the cradle song

abandon common sense

 

merry the season of death-upon-plate

with cracker or bonbon, dad jokes

someone will spoil the fun

 

our martyred dead

this day we think of

but couldn’t be abolished

 

christmas comes over me

like the Santa surfboard wave

 

the presents in the pouch

with truth to set on

Rolf Harris was

painted the queen

and she is a kind of christmas

 

wrappings!

who thought of me

with my everything?

yet

 

they are betraying the children with lies

to save us all from Satan’s power

a stocking and tinsel too

all through the house

 

schmaltz and kitsch thereof

schenden-fuck of peace to prince

none stirring, not even

 

donkey looks in

for the sake of dim

 

christmas a heathaze

all for frenzy bid up

and after come the sales

 

love a manger

makes messianic

wafer thin one more

the constipation thus

and though their limbs

grew stiff and cold

 

it’s day of most toppings too

where entered into diabetes

fired with bottle, fists lit

fizzy

 

twelve days

and merry gentlemen

in Moscow’s vaults hymns sung

 

the christmas kittens

holy floss!

no sleeps to go  

the ladder to the cross

child betrayed with a kiss

BIOLOGY TRAPS MOTHER WITH MIRACLE

comes but once a year

 

infant might

and black as night

 

who thought this doxy do?

kith kin

kills the others all

because the sign is death!

 

make mine saturnalia

and unto us

 

hope was once

twinkle

let nothing of orient art you dismay

 

ramp up the gentility

and may they all be white

and whiter

make mercy mild

as mild can be

 

here we are

late in the action

wondering if once again …

 

everyone loves a good yarn

with some twists –

expect the unexpected!

 

let’s not forget the tree

we worship a carnival here