Flashback: Santa's Christmas, 2009 - Part 3

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Christmas Day.
Work done.

Santa watches his mother-in-law
( a tough old bird)
wrestling with the turkey.

Boxing Day!
The fight goes on.

Two falls and a submission.
It's over.

The turkey's won.


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Sometimes
(don't you know, know, know)
Santa, too, wrestles;
has a bout with self-doubt,
and loses.

At times
(don't you know, know, know)
he even finds it hard
to believe in himself
himself.

This year,
to get him through this crisis,
to save him from distress,
I'm conducting a little survey
to discover, more or less,
who still believes in Father Christmas.

So if you do, shout YES!*

* Any comments and words of encouragement will be forwarded to Santa.
YOUR SANTA NEEDS YOU!



Poem copyright Bernard Young, 2010
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