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A BLUE BUT TRUE X-MAS STORY

Step Santa and Petting the Prefix

12/28/18
I just received a gift from my {step}mother.
Only three days late this year.
It's a Santa Claus soap dispenser... with a twirl and a twist. 
I used to own it, well over twenty years ago.
It has yellow soap still clogging the spigot...
*****, that you've treated old Saint Nick like a {step},
How true to your form and fitting that is.

{Step} Santa was more of a message than a gift.
After all, I've been a half-assed {step}son at best.
But {step}mother, you must admit, I was always your third-class citizen.
From the brackish affection, impish rags you stapled to my rear,
Minor infractions, met with a strap called; I'll reduce you to tears.   

You were the metal-toothed snapper in the pond of my youth. 
Mother, if you deny this, you're just another abuser of truth!

For the most part, I've freeze-dried your slipperiness, 
I think {step} is glacier cold, but a most accurate prefix.
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December 29, 2018 at 11:24 AM
Anthony, as soon as you wrote "only three days late this year" I had a clue that this relationship was less than stellar. I like the integrity of this poem, and the integrity of not gifting your abuser with a gift. Nicely done in both cases! The last line is truly profoundly done.
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