here’s a perfect festive picture in 253 words:
Christmas Tree in a Dumpster
december fifteen
ten days to the big event
I’m enjoying a walk on a cold sunny day
on my way home from
a brief shopping challenge
in which I stuck to a list
no impulse shopping
enjoying the almost heat
of sun on my face
when I spot
beside an apartment building
in a dumpester
the ass end
of a Christmas tree sticking up
ornaments tinsel dangling
a stretch of purple silver garland
drooping over the side
now
after the new years
I’d not be surprised
to see such a sight
though tossing a tree
with ornaments still on
would be rare
it was a real tree too
the raw sawed end bravely trust
at the sun
tinsel shivering
in the breeze of cars whizzing by
‘Christmas tree in a dumpster’
sound like the start of country song
yet there it was
after too much cheer too soon
too little gratitude from the kids
teaching someone a lesson
getting rid of it
before the real bad memories took hold
angry break up
a door slammed
and out with the tree
hauling it down in the elevator
out to the dumpster
climbing up and shoving it in
tinsel garlands strings of lights
strewn in an angry wake
I can’t imagine it being done
in calmness and serenity
get the fuck out of here
and take your goddamned tree too
or did they dump it off a balcony
someone is having
a Christmas to remember
I’m glad it’s not me
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