This year’s Christmas poem is a repeat from 2012 because I thought we could all use a laugh:
I’m trying to write a Christmas song,
God, why is this so tough?
I have no musical talent and my rhyming’s kinda rough.
But it shouldn’t be so hard to string some words together,
Say something about Santa and stars or maybe sing about the weather.
(Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow)
I could try to be serious this year, sing about some modern woe
Songs by Bing and Bowie and the Alarm cover that pretty well though.
I could sing about missing Christmas with the someone that I love
But I’m pretty sure another sad song would make you all give me a shove.
(I’ll Be Home for Christmas…)
Maybe I should sing of sleighs! Of reindeer or snowmen or drummer boys!
Or maybe I should scrap this thing and go buy the kids their toys.
I could sing of New Year’s Eve instead, of hopes for where next year will go,
Or of how it’s just another night. Oh wait, that’s been done by Barry Manilow.
(It’s just another New Year’s Eve…)
Where’s the romance of holidays, the falling in love on a sleigh?
Maybe that’s what I should sing about: being merry and gay!
That’s it! I’ll sit up all night long, wait for a cute Santa to come by
Or maybe an Elf (of Legolas’s kind), I’m a geeky kinda guy!
(I’mma be under the Mistletoe with you…)
May you have a rock-and-roll Christmas, or one that’s White or Green or Blue.
May you have Nights Holy and Silent, be it Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Solstice or Yule.
May the Love and Light of the season
Warm you and keep you safe.
Merry Christmas,
Happy Hannukah,
Joyous New Year!