Some (not entirely apolitical) holiday poetry

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Dead Santas

I’m waiting to hear something

from right-wing hate media

about the so-called “war on Christmas”

including all the Santa and Mrs. Claus

actors dying from Covid.

Hannity, Bannon, Beck, Shapiro, Carlson,

have already convinced millions

the pandemic is a Democratic party

ploy to turn the country into the Soviet Union;

blaming the dearth of mall Santas

on it as well seems like a no-brainer.

Maybe we shouldn’t be giving them

any ideas, although I’m not all that

concerned. I doubt they’re into poetry.

The Santa Claus (Don’t Lie to Your Children)

It’s nearly midnight,

and I just wrote “From Santa”

in red Sharpie

on the present under the ornament

my son stuck together

with felt and popsicle sticks.

There was a time not long ago