31 japanese december verses

1.
december is wet
and trudging in with a bad mood
like an umbrella

2.
we pretend it snows
Singaporeans only
know the monsoon rains

3.
kiss me under this
dripping overhang. I squelch
closer to my love

4.
I would write you a
great many poems but they
wouldn't make much sense

5.
I would write out the
better parts of us not caught
in a cold draft before spring

6.
is love haiku love?
I think of Osho and wilt,
my verses cringing

7.
half-slumbered awake
we unentwine; he steals down
asleep the parents

8.
my body the ghost
aches; left side stiffened in dawn,
inexorable

9.
split concrete is not
good with friction. I slip you
a puddle embrace

10.
last month to pile all
deadlines on us. I turn to
blaming the weather

11.
I suppose we still
have a right to drink mocha
with white chocolate

12.
everyone hates you
they don't want to wear Santa
hats for the whole month

13.
nobody in their
right minds stays here any more
for the holidays

14.
Orchard Road is world-
renowned for Christmas light-up
(just for the tourists)

15.
I don't really want
to sit on your lap, white man
who can't grant wishes

16.
shop till you drop! signs
proclaim. I halt in my tracks,
fall flat on the floor

17.
how does one buy gifts
for a mother? how do you
give her anything

18.
a last month of thoughts
panicking all your New Year's
resolutions lost.

19.
so this is Christmas
and I have not done so much
somewhere a cat mewls

20.
there are no seasons
here; I greet you anyway
these are my fistfights

21.
the streets are slick with
gloss and we pretend every
thing has been perfect

22.
baby, it's cold out
we should stay here where all of
my relatives aren't

23.
each year the locals
take their migratory flights
fly to cheaper lands

24.
we hanker for snow
winter capers here are faked;
mimicked by soap flakes

25.
the only present
under here is the gift of
no Christmas shopping.

26.
this could get messy.
mistletoe and alcohol
may not be the best.

27.
my boyfriend has flown
north for the winter; he is
not of this wetland

28.
SAD was made
up by psychologists who
understood lonely.

29.
step right up, they say -
resolutions have gone to
dust. here's a new year

30.
charities seem to
think you are more generous
when jostled and wet.

31.
what is the point of
putting so many things on
to then remove them?