holidays
Quintessensual What great mind
gave us so generously
the absurdity
that quote the holidays close quote
is a period
around the time a young alleged virgin
was denied room at a homeless shelter
and instead gave birth to god
in a barn
on the night nearly the longest and coldest
every year?

Thanks, great mind,
for such beneficence,
the quote holidays close quote
is the ultimate sugar-coating
of hard truth,
to seduce us
to chip another tooth
for the cheerful pain
that brings.

Great mind,
it must be
you were
a weight-loss guru,
retailer of diamonds,
perfume,
whiskey,
or intimate underwear,
or a resident down under
perversely looking up.

Oh, great Mind,
the dupery
of the name you coined
is too profane and greedy,
to hide all sacred
and blasphlaming
goodies,
shining moments
in the dark and gloom,
holier
in their rarity
and sometimes brilliantly
more intense,
more enduring,
or more profound.

great mind,
do what you will;
but we,
anticipating,
and without knowing
the sun will strike
any moment,
stumble trembling
into the next chapters
of our lives.

Copr. 1999
991214
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tazfab It was on the first Thanksgiving that I was no longer with my lover that I realized how unhappy I had been since we broke up. Not having the holidays with him made me very depressed and, for the first time, I consciously think about ending it all. 001127
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sphinxradio so i declare
a holiday
fall asleep
drift away
011231
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kerry expensive!
busy!
depressing sometimes!
but,
alas,
a break from school...
tis all that matters!
011231
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safety pin bird in the sun 020101
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impatient virgin damn_straight, kerry. 020101
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no reason anyone up for some ramadaychrismakwanukkah cake?? 031209
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p2 you forgot
festivus
031209
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no reasonavus !
you're right.

i MEANT
ramadaychrismakwanukkahvus.
031209
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