ChristmasHAL!

Roses are red, violets are blue,
and leave it there, i saw mommy kissing santa claus
underneath the mistletoe last night.
she shot her man, for doin' her wrong

Oh, you knew there hadn't been enough nonsense from MegaHAL this holiday season.

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blitzen
With the precision of a man named brady,
who left her hairs
on his shoulders, pale brown and slightly thickened.

cover, remove from heat and pour into a burning wick
at the melancholy menace of their scything
tails. They tell
on christmas day in the tree,
'tis sweet to think of the world.

down, down, down
and donner and blitzen!
to the clicking inspectors
who lie unseen beneath the bank
with such a form of surrender
out of the sun.

( Millions for defense but not mushy )

Merry Christmas, everyone!

December 25

The time of year when people, for a brief, shining moment, stop looking to great armies or political power to save them and look instead at a miracle of a little oil somehow being enough, the sun starting to gain strength in the midst of the darkness, the birth of a helpless little boy. Even if you disbelieve in anything but the physical realities of the star our earth revolves around, one thing to be thankful for is that at this time of year, many of your fellow walkers on this planet are thinking in terms of something other than domination and destruction. Though people may return to their daily cruelties tomorrow, for today they have the sense that kindness and light are the law of the cosmos. Though tomorrow they may repress all thoughts of anything other than getting ahead, the memory of today still burns deep inside, making the world less dark than it would otherwise be.

Christmas isn't about light. It's about light in the darkness.