Passing of the New Year
We could have had champagne and not Buck’s fizz, but then we aren’t in showbiz. We glorify and harness God’s creation in full spirit, praising his glory. The passing of the year, nothing to fear, his goodwill to mankind, it is without deploration, acutely aware of the labour ahead-January blues, that first Monday does lamentedly lurk, far from jovial or jaunty as work is around the cruel corner. Unadorned is now the room but the fire still ablaze where the cat does lethargically laze. Snow did disrupt December endeavour and to avoid the roads, we’d be more than clever-force winds doesn’t hinder the odd ocean swimmer-madness to those who take hot wine from the beach’s cafe with views of breaking waves which battle the surfers. Many a woman is all too aware that more mincemeat won’t make a tactical nighttime dancer trimmer. A fanciful occasion for many albeit far from a duchess, but prone to impress to celebrate the New Year is without much persuasion.
they run around looking for patterns
those blasted ants should
be happy they even have bread to eat
with their miserable tithes
of palm tree leaves
they lamentedly wave
to the fleeting warmth of a
yellow moon
with eyes like melting
rotting butter
bleaching the perfect soil
with their ugly mouths
preaching from their flower
waiting, wanting to die
with some nature of a profound grace
that will never
ever
come
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