The Ghosts of Christmas
When December's long-dark days
Grow so unrelentingly cold
That even those Dickensian ghosts of Christmas past and future,
Let alone that of the lowly present,
In perfectly enunciated "Bartleby the scrivener" fashion,
"Prefer not" to make a fleet appearance on my stage,
Then I know it's finally time for me to decide
Whether I need to leave, for distant eternities,
Or stay, provisionally, wait for the snow
To bury the ghost of my Christmasless existence
In a shroud white enough to hide the grayness of my soul.
12/11/10 - (2)
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