Another year gone

A poem by Dave Ross

Christmas is over, another year gone
And the house was all quiet, when finally it dawned
On the Missus and me as we sat reminiscing
That something important was utterly… missing!

I flipped through the channels from one to nine hundred
Where was the story I wanted, I wondered?
So I finally turned and I said to the Missus
“My gosh, what became of this year’s war on Christmas?”

Remember the warnings? Remember the books?
Now Christmas explodes everywhere that you look.
Computerized lights on each house you drive by
Like Christmas has merged with the Fourth of July.

In fact there are folks who don’t know when to stop.
They go and push Christmas way over the top.
And it isn’t just mangers, and wise men and stars
Now you have deer antlers sprouting from cars.

Why, there I was last week just driving along
When I heard someone blasting a loud Christmas song
And what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a car dressed like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer!

It had more Christmas spirit than any car should
With a seven-point rack and a nose on the hood.
And I said when I knew they could no longer see us,

That’s what happens when Rudolph has sex with a Prius.

There’s only one thing this could possibly mean:
That Christmas has made it through 2014.
And I predict that next year it will still be around
Unless Kim Jong Un makes us shut it all down;

Now turn up the sound – so the carpool can hear
The toast that I raise at this same time each year:
You worship your way, I’ll worship mine
Put rum in the fruitcake and we’ll both be fine.