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 | 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
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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
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 | kerry | expensive! busy!
 depressing sometimes!
 but,
 alas,
 a break from school...
 tis all that matters!
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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
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 | no reasonavus | ! you're right.
 
 i MEANT
 ramadaychrismakwanukkahvus.
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