Six sad exuberant historians
I studied over the holiday break
Four evangelists and two fairy tales
As they appeared in the European
Middle Ages and nothing of what
Was going on in China or
The Yucatan Peninsula at that time
I mean where were you in 1492
Or 1942 never in the same place twice
It startled me how much the basic forms
We keep and continue to dress up
With new and interesting characters
All the old traditions of master and slave
And still Jesus comes and is born
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