#1454 - for goodness' sake

 

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for goodness’ sake

obligatory Christmas medley

 

I saw three ships

all carrying coal across our horizon

 

with a plonk nose Santa omniscience

 

merry merry ding dong

 

put up a tree

hung the lights

 

cicadas louder

 

rest ye

mercy mild

 

save us all from

a retail psychosis

 

a kiss under the cameltoe

 

and deck our enemies to boot

 

later, through dark glassly

 

nothing dismayed

numbers wobbly out the window

 

with four out-of-control bushfires

five unprecedented storms

twelve biblical plagues

 

one ice shelf melts

a ten meter rise

 

where’s partridge to land?

 

hang a star

can you follow?

 

where’s Noel?

he’s tallest

 

much maudlin nostalgia

from well of grief

in comfort is joy

 

as for those who hear the angels sing

 

Christmas is the day of the gone

 

each has a lovely nook nostalgia

as shepherd is to crook

 

abhore, deplore, ignore

 

o come let us

flock by night

for Christmas bulbs

all heartspoke

 

a bauble, a bon bon

the coldest of jokes

 

manger it, gather round

let no one speak of religion

 

fire up the yule log

 

rest merry, yes, you bet

 

try not to fight or throw food

 

like the python, lie low to digest

 

do you think the original meaning’s

been lost?

 

slay the bells

and end this folly

 

where are the beetles

of childhood now?

 

hot spurs

to lash the reindeer on

 

merry merry ding dong

 

twelve days

and the tree

and the lights

come down

 

tralalalala

 

Christ, what a bore