What?

WHAT? Thanksgiving’s on the way This had crossed my mind But what? While shopping the mall yesterday I came on this display – Who could miss it? – Shelves and shelves full of teddy bears nutcrackers dolls delicate ornaments and then! this big open square rimmed with the most perfect synthetic trees one might imagine – silver trees green trees blue trees even a red tree all decorated magnificently In the middle exactly in the middle of the square – a stage an empty throne and this short white slat-fence enclosing the whole I shook my head What happened to Thanksgiving? Who the hell is thinking about Thanksgiving? certainly not the merchants! Well I wandered down the aisle toward the food court and guess what? I come across a pen with a real live turkey strutting around Seems I was wrong about the merchants So? To top it off – in the food court at one of the tables there sits a man in suspenders white tee shirt red trousers red coat draped across the back of the chair a phony white beard red cap lying on the table He is one ugly bony faced misshapen human being Santa’s on lunch break gravy and partly chewed food spilled down his chin bald head red as a beet I can’t help staring at him totally freaked He looks my way smiles “Gobble gobble” says St. Nick