I think I'll be sending electronic Christmas cards from here! Ain't
seen one for sale ... although in September I was in a restaurant
decorated with cardboard Father Christmases - When asked 'why', the
staff didn't know who he was! Just a friendly old guy, a jolly hobo
with a sack over his back. Culture doesn't always translate, does it.
Andre de Linfen
On 17/11/06, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Max I always get abit alarmed by eyes falling all that grabbing scraping to
> get it back in again-so embarassing on a nativity too!!
> Jule is upon us the cards arriving early as usual from OZ & NZ
> Cheeries P eye fall P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 16 November 2006 07:10
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> Subject: another late snap (11 November)
>
>
> Saturday morning in the shopping mall,
> early November, my eye falls
> on the reinstated Nativity scene,
> rough plaster animals, Holy
> Family like unwelcome migrants,
> Wise Men behaving anomalously.
>
> Next, nearby, a vast shiny
> green red and gold contraption ready
> to serve as Santa's cave.
> His old throne awaits his advent.
>
> The p.a. system forces Christmas carols
> in all ears. Till - cutting across,
> comes a bugle call, and a voice intoning
> At the going down of the sun...
> Right now of course it's just eleven a.m.
>
> Older folk freeze, stand at attention.
> Most aren't listening, or
> don't know what it's for.
> I put down the bargain book
> I was fingering, and note I've yet again
> neglected to take a poppy
> from the old man with a tray.
>
> Max Richards
>
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Andrew
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