Sunday, December 20, 2015

Scrooge !

Christmas letters -
Hi we have been doing 
Xyz . . .
And we are so 
Wonderful !!!

All the family 
This and that 
Sorry you -
Are not part of that -
That family 
No you are just the 
Maiden aunt 
I remember my 
Aunt 
And how she was left 
Out 
Of 
Everything 
It's 
A family tradition !

Here's to all the maiden aunts 
May they make their own 
Arrangements  
For 
Everything 

 Betwixt and between 
Not one thing 
Or the other 
No place to fit 
No place to sit 
It's been like that
All along 

There is a prejudice here 
For 
Over-population -
Breeders
At this time of year 

And I suppose it's largely 
My fault (always is) 
For I do not go 
Pound on their doors 
But rather try 
And be no bother 

Drat this time of year 
And all its stupid carols 
Blaring at us from everywhere 
Asking us to buy 
What we cannot afford 
     And they don't want 
They have so much more
     Money than I 
Always have had 
Let them buy what they want 
And leave me be
And tonight 
He 
Has made arrangements 
For us to see 
The play about Scrooge 
God save me !
Why did they have to 
Go to all that trouble 
With ghosts and such 
To dissuade him from 
His perfectly correct 
Assumption 
In the beginning ?