Sunday, December 22, 2019

mmcmxlvii

Giving Santa’s Ho Ho Ho Back (Ha Ha Ha)

taking shopping out of the holidays
can add a lot of hos if you ask me.

then what about the others? oh,
what others? it is easy to forget.

note to self: need others is the most
obvious note in my solitary universe.

however, even in solitary universes,
the obvious stares at your face,

and you are too busy running (in
place, no real movement, in effect,

nothing but a christmas metaphor)
in place. solitary...confinement?

i seem to know about this method
as it has come up in conversation

a lot lately. odd how life can change
so overwhelmingly on a dime. e.g.,

grew up poor, did the 5 cent lunches
at school (was’t that embarrassed,

it seemed most of my small town re-
ceived this bit of luxury), became aware

of uniform trends in the age of brands 
blatantly portrayed on anything and 

everything, especially what we wore 
(e.g., men on horses with polo sticks, 

alligators, op, which some of you surely
remember is ocean pacific; others, even

those who remember, who cares, right?
not true. i do. always important to look

to the future as accurately as one can
swimming back to a time, putting on

one’s young and enviable eyes
so as to look at the person — me — who

just performed this exercise if only to
gather some sort of comparison:

what is better? what is worse? what
surprising lucky avenues did I take?

and vice versa and et cetera.). enough
about the holidays, which greet me from

near beginning to end now with the grip
of solitude, if this is not right. find some-

thing, look at it long enough, laugh. prac-
tice for finding someone at whom to look

for an embarrassingly extended amount
of time, reach awkward stages as you

scrutinize the other, and laugh. or what-
ever other action or inaction seems

appropriate. the goal is clear. it is clearly
good to have goals. one ho, two ho, three

hos. hohoho. hahaha. jolly and red and
zaftig. (i think this word is making a come-

back, but i could be wrong.)

xmas to the star