all the trimmings
hanging off the balance wide
bodied acts a certain age
state their resolutions while
happy new years
ring across the globe it's cheers
bottoms up with drinks all round
Christmas leftovers & wine
heated with cloves
some recycled presents fall
off a tree but shucks the thought
counts not credit ratings how
stuffed can you get
such acrylic hats & socks
table football USB
organiser databank
tickets for live
sex at home plus bogus snuff
movies gobs of candle wax
snowman's frozen ear muffs
panic attacks
*
cost of living Dude
gas & electricity
cable phones The Internet
water rates plus council tax
maintenance bills
rice with vegetables & nuts
fruit pots of milk butter cheese
yoghurt bread some chocolate oats
litre of plonk
car insurance test & road
tax before you fill the tank
wiper blades repairs new treads
finance & fines
glucosamine collagen
multivit’n’minerals
walnut oil biloba leaf
wing & a prayer
not to mention family clothes
college travel bed & board
holidays & birthday gifts
shall I go on
*
wrong moon Blue
what a waste of time
rocket fuel & dreams aside
setting worlds apart
salvage hauliers
bent on totting what we find
really it’s a crime
though the comet's fine
lovely specimen of deep
interstellar ice
probably retains
isotopes from primal stars
gone but not reborn
still the basic trip
was it worth that lonesome blip
of intelligence
*
noël coward
Christmas past ennui
Airfix kits unfinished faint
whiffs of scotch & cramp
twisted promises
no but cold & damp despite
both electric bars
BC natural gas
’sixty-five or six I guess
by the furniture
melancholy’s first
outing has me shuddering
try & turn it off
having failed to see
through the stillness into wow
this is how it goes
*
broken tooth fairy
stop this bleeding world
fetch the tourniquet before
Shitface hits a fan
pardon me it's French
Dumbo comprehend the term
Anglais savez-vous
anyroad what’s said
won’t be taken down no score
draws included see
off the coupon Blue
read the bearer what they’re owed
straight between the lines
it's a joke don’t laugh
picking funny bones with death
duty Royals oof
*
mirage-à-trois heures
gently laughing waves
break along the giddy shore
Party Tricks-on-Sea
what no leeks at home
send a politician out
fifteen bob in change
has inflation come
back again or is it my
mathematics phew
thought I’d lost it then
sixty-five’s a funny age
better get some checks
saw a Zodiac
full of snowman saboteurs
landing on the beach
*
Dad’s Barmy
paper tiger
wrestling blacked
out without the
radio
on or slow to sleep
while cold
drunk to my toes
you’ve mistaken me
before
ghost of Christmas-never-was
full of western
promises
broken of course
as the ageing
mouse that roared
World War Three &
right to cry
wolf although I’ve
lived a life
mainly in peace
somewhat English love
to show
off my feelings once
a year
own a pet gorilla suit
worn underneath
won’t be pigeon-holed
for long
homing instincts
working class
inverted aristocrat
nailed to the mast
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