Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Christmas Valentine

Christmas gets old

especially for children

waiting to be gifted

at year’s end the

eighth grade play

begins that way

one poor boy too many

on the earth

so thousands die

like today while

he hides in the hills

above Alexandria

the widow’s son

young and alive

often in the market

in the company

of questionable women

questionable men.

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