Sunday, July 23, 2006

X-mas in July: a blank verse sonnet based on an off-hand comment

Hey, I didn't get the chance to reject
Santa as a fraud. When I was 9 my dad
Took me shopping to Big V at X-mas
He bought the sweetest air hockey table,
And I glared at it in its cardboard box.
When I asked him what that was for he said
"It is from Santa Claus to your brother."
I tell you I've had many moments in
My life of utter disappointment and
Disillusionment, but nothing matches
The feelings of emptiness, rejection
And fear that I felt on that ride home one
Snowy December afternoon in my
Dad's fifty three Ford Power King pickup.

¶ 7:31 PM

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That's what I thought.
# posted by theorris : 8:48 PM

-Oh yeah!-

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