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Christmas under National this year – Merry Christmas Landlords
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Political Caption Competition
I don’t need to carry in KFC and pretend to care when it’s not a climate event
I just want to give Santa a hug. He looks woebegone. That’s what he could do for Christmas – sell cards wishing WOEBEGONE in clear red (postbox red, not blood-red) and then shake each purchaser’s hand, so we know it’s a human whim not AI.
And perhaps inside the card could be some whim from past WhimWham (Allen Curnow),
MATINS
Pray God and quiet take
for this day’s part of His desiring,
make greater thy heart
to brim the joy and
shame the hours
repeat as
Light in pity’s name
kneels at thy feet and sues thee,
offering quick love before thee:
birds at thy rising sing:
angels adore thee.
He gives thee suns to burn:
beauty for beauty
give then,
thy best return
candles for duty
(Page 8) (I have distorted the shape of the poem from that chosen by Curnow –
for his shape see link below.)
https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/content/Appendix-AllenCurnowCollectedPoems.pdf
Nicola seemed such a nice girl all those years ago when she handed me her Christmas wish list. It was hand written on a scroll so long a town crier would have lost his voice if he read it all out aloud.
Reindeer? We had to eat them.
Im now on the unemployment but have sanctions on me because people dont have money for presents .