Christmas fair/fayre/farce...

Christmas Fair/Fayre/Farce…

This Christmas farce

Of fake bon hommie-

Who gives a stuff-ing for the

Duck, Goose or Turkey?

Early Yuletide sales-

Sing a song of sixpence,

for the Bankers, make

the savings have a ring-fence.

Come fill your cup- and toast

a bleak mid-winter discount.

It’s sure to ease the burden

of your siege -shopping flaunt.

Twelve days of Christmas,

let’s bankrupt the poor,

throw the workers on the scrapheap

and the credit through the floor.

Ellie LaCrosse

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Comments

Arrow

17 years 5 months ago

Where have YOU been?

Welcome back. What is a ring-fence? Well, I retain some joy despite my fear b/c my loved ones have lived another year. As for the poem, if you plan to revise, I'd try to make the rhythm stronger, esp. since you're satirizing songs. The beat's fairly strong in the last stanza. --Joyeux Nöel

panaella

17 years 5 months ago

Jaded...

Hey Arrow! Yes, I've had a little break...I've been so busy with work. For some reason, I'm so grumpy about Christmas this year- very unlike me. I just can't get excited or feel the magic, I think my general fatigue has something to do with it. Need to address that for 2009. A ring-fence is a term often used in business to protect or seal-off funds so that they cannot be used for another purpose.I thought I had used it in the right context! LOL I'm upto my eyes in marking A' Level Language Investigations at the moment...if I have a spare 5 mins, I'll revisit the rhythm structure...just to keep you happy, Herr Uber-Critiquer. ;)) ELLS.

spike

17 years 3 months ago

Sad but True

I love the 4 F's of adrenelin and now the 3 of event capitalism you have invented. I get irritated by Christmas trees going up in October and lights in November and then seeing the misery Xmas brings after the 25th with the theme your poem reverberates with. Nice work...could you make it longer?

R.M.Shanmugam

16 years 4 months ago

Twelve days of

Twelve days of Christmas, let’s bankrupt the poor, how true! a happy new year. shan