How did Christmas
become such a threat
to my finances?
Little by little,
year by year,
I'm expected to spend greater amounts on gifts,
like a snake surrounding
and threatening me
with a body as thick as my arms.
I’m powerless to resist social pressures
from extended family and friends
for more and more gifts,
as if cold coils constrict
tighter each time I exhale
squeezing me,...
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