Happy Holidays (for a change!)

How ‘bout you stuff me for Thanksgiving,

And I’ll wrap you for Christmas?

We’ll start a few—New Traditions,

That we might just want to keep.

We’ll hang our old cobwebs on a tree,

Then throw the whole thing out for New Year’s.

Burn it all, like a Yule-time log,

Then drift off in unconscious sleep.

We’ll dream our way into happiness,

As we check our eyelids for holes.

We’ll sleep walk and sleep talk for decades,

‘Til the shifting of the poles

Realigns our charters, and allows for better lands,

In warmer places, where sugar grows wild,

And the pantheon understands.

-jenn long