In a stupid shallow Santa Simpson way
Fake snowflakes pall a Christmas menopause,
Poured out like alcoholic Christmas cheer
Whose gases gurgle inside abdomens
A delinquent likeness jests in shopping malls
Gifts, unctuous, now realise a jingling reign
Love-longing girls and boys hang out their highest hopes;
Concur in a de rigueur to a clothes police
Over all climbs the holly
All over bar the celebration folly;
The Christmas guy brings round full-stack of roadkill;
Accursed dessert
Great ancient magic facts once loaded on a star
Late revelations laid them thought-precluded;
Synoptic novel observations, shifts,
Restrain their substance by the stockingful
Stuffed bellies belly-up obtrude the signs;
Their trolley off the rails
Whiter-than-white commercial snow surmises altered states
Showers of Christmas-flavoured poker-chip theologies
Shepherds awoken flare up in arms exploding bombs
Destroying a marvellous and mild Magnificat
Jets judder gunfire bring down loose tinsel hangings
On combat troops ecstatic in deray
Stray crossfire drifting eastwards, stutters; flames ignite
The bare cropped Christmas trees propping a trench
Holy fulfilment’s bankrupted - it’s past its time;
Once it was hallowed; and verity its theme
Elisions lead festivities into vanities:
Consensual stomachs elbowing room to matter