The
outrage against Christmas in the media
The
war assigned to a distancing in demographics
From
the exuberant pageantry of commemorating the Claus
And
the absence of cunnilingus or penetration
Is
about a fear that the sheep outside the manger
Will
quit buying things
That
whole Magi insertion spun roulette golden bounty
Never
letting out for a first mortgage or a college fund
Laid
at the infant’s naked toes blown on the donkey ride home
As
if His scrotum was world-leveling reciprocation
The
red modern-panic is about the stock tickers
The
post-Turkey store stampede video-clip news turnstile
Is
to make one remember to buy
The
herd is forming
Make
a list, check it
The
variable of co-participants stuffing receipts for you and yours
Must
commiserate with them and theirs
The
audacious ignominy of saying all I got you was love
I
volunteered the other eleven months
Helping
families of you do not know
Individuals
in paying attention to emotional needs
When
the moments flipped in the running waters of my consciousness
I
am here, flowing, being like an open womb
Vulnerable
and generous
Empathetic
and incomplete
Like
Christmas without a return policy
Just
what I had on this no-nothing day
Willing
to be embarrassed that I am apparently empty handed
To
stand in this circle hold limbs and connect with you
And
that which is greater than me
These
newsreel gasps see the revolutionary in such blasphemy
To
say not Happy Holidays but Happy Thursday
For
the arbitrary rotation of a planet revolving around a gaseous orb
Celebrating
the miracle that any of us are here at all
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