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Just a Little Holiday CheerSo now you can enjoy the holiday season Snuggling up under the warm global blanket Of carbonic gases with your favorite Cuddle bunny, or other suitable shape shifter Ventured out of it dark burrow to find a warm place To lay its plastic eggs So decoratively wrapped in iridescent recollection And hypnotic promises Those money back guarantees And new generation graphics Will make you feel like You are right inside the game No more hokey Jimmy Stewart pop guns Or Mommy trainer wet me babies This is high tech Sino-pop anamae Riding the fumes of oceanic freight liners Just for you! No more snow white Christmas Thank you Chinese industrial revolution. No more World Peace Thank you American gas guzzler No More Santa Claus Thank you Internationalist big box retailer No More Grace of God Thank you Henry Kissinger For helping the poor from the jungle to the World Bank From the farms of their ancestors To the cities of their masters To the slave camps of their torturers To make the bling that ‘retail' hypnotic Consumer zombies in shopping frenzies And glutinous electronic media orgies Lost in a crystal ball that doesn't snow anymore When you shake it upside down Drowned in a polypropylene potpourri Of Yule-tide bargains on overstocked third world imports bound for the county landfill Made with the bloody fingers of overworked women For a day's dollar wage To drive a price lower than anything made in America To yank your career right out from under you And create an even bigger demand for slave labor To make things even cheaper For the newly unemployed We'll give you the hot Latin sounds Of ringtone jingles And the anguished cries of polar bears On a north pole without ice Christmas carols from the dark ages of the twentieth century, Sung in duets by iconic rock has-beens And upwardly mobile celebrity wanabes… Muscle their way through the sound current Riding the power of corporate money Bled from your wallets And the shivering cup of the homeless Fleecing you like Jesus' little lambs All shorn and naked in a cruel world Bleating for your share of Mama's milk… We'll give you a mother's sobbing lament Her child dead in a hale of bullets called "friendly fire" From a self righteous military might Who came to her land to give her a better life So that she, too could have a holiday like us Just as empty… and just as full of plastic Merry X-Mas everyone! Poetry Ad-Free Upgrades Vote for this poem
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