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Christmas Muzak was piped through to every store in the shopping mall. Giant red velvet bows adorned reproduction Victorian gaslights. Yards of glittered cotton pretended to be snow. A Santa rang a brass bell.
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Tack up the ribbons,
the banners with tape.
Set the table
with tablecloth,
bright cups and plates.
Tell Grandma
it’s time
to bring in the cake.
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Dead drunks sing Christmas/
songs-
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“I would not eat that cake if I was you,” Uncle Marty says, clinging now to the tire swing and panting like he is out of breath. “You know what it done to me.”
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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A man of action would take to his rake/
but Sloth would rather watch and wait/
for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.
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he opens the car door, wrestles out a full-size tiger, and drags it across the snow-covered lawn
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