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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Holiday · #1545943
A Holiday Paradox
Santa Who?

I walked around
On a barren strip of desert
In a dying empire
Pointing out
Cruelty, hypocrisy, and greed,
I didn’t know
That two thousand years later,
A Jolly Fat Man
In a red suit
Would be celebrating
My birthday.


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