Pronouncements About Santa
and other recent musings by Winston
“Call the police officers to come and take away La Luna and bring my day back!”
- upon being forced to leave the Tate Modern and after any good day
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Our flat does not have a fireplace or a mantle.
The media insists
Santa comes down the chimney
and out of the fireplace.
I suggested he’d just hop down
from the roof and in the porch door.
This was not acceptable.
After a night of sleep,
in which all mysteries are revealed
Winston announces that
Santa will be coming
out of the oven.
This is the logic of 3 year olds.
Castle people used fireplaces to cook food.
Santa prefers to enter buildings
through places which are used to cook food and are hot.
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“Some people can taste the sky. I can not.
- upon careful study of the heavy layer of fog.
“Call the police officers to come and take away La Luna and bring my day back!”
- upon being forced to leave the Tate Modern and after any good day
+ + +
Our flat does not have a fireplace or a mantle.
The media insists
Santa comes down the chimney
and out of the fireplace.
I suggested he’d just hop down
from the roof and in the porch door.
This was not acceptable.
After a night of sleep,
in which all mysteries are revealed
Winston announces that
Santa will be coming
out of the oven.
This is the logic of 3 year olds.
Castle people used fireplaces to cook food.
Santa prefers to enter buildings
through places which are used to cook food and are hot.
+ + +
“Some people can taste the sky. I can not.
- upon careful study of the heavy layer of fog.
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