09-30-2016, 05:51 AM
Santa's Favorite
Forget cheerfulness on Christmas.
Forget relatives --
write letters to your beastly cats.
Pardon no one.
Narrow your eyes and bristle
at people and their poisonous
presence, their curious directions.
[They'd have you shrink till you burst]
Pour yourself a sea's worth of sherry
and lay on the bearskin rug
by the fire. Wait lazily
for Santa; he gives the best presents
to women in fishnet stockings
with a golden line up the back.
Forget cheerfulness on Christmas.
Forget relatives --
write letters to your beastly cats.
Pardon no one.
Narrow your eyes and bristle
at people and their poisonous
presence, their curious directions.
[They'd have you shrink till you burst]
Pour yourself a sea's worth of sherry
and lay on the bearskin rug
by the fire. Wait lazily
for Santa; he gives the best presents
to women in fishnet stockings
with a golden line up the back.