Shortest Day Trickery

SHORTEST DAY TRICKERY Again December 23 is almost here Frost’s darkest evening of the year, Ok. But what really bugs me Is that it is the date when we Are actually closer to the sun By three million miles - no I’m not making fun. It’s like going to a supermarket where It advertises mega-bargains in hardware - Twenty-five percent off everything, And then finding that we are paying Three times the normal price in the western hemisphere. Seems to me there’s a con trick here. We’re being ripped off, short-changed somehow. Getting a steer, having paid for a cow Getting the short end of the stick Like being victim of some card trick I mean who would buy a heater that Got colder as you moved your chair closer? Instead of Shortest Day it should be renamed Shortest End of the Stick Day.