now Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
is detained in Greenland
Zoo
this card must go by Royal
Mail
do hope it reaches you
I'd send some joyful
tidings
gift-wrapped with festive
verse
but everyday the news seems bad
& it's getting worse
in the bleak mid-winter
of our discontent
there's little cause for
revelry
or merriment
Christmas is coming
the force-fed goose gets fat
(geese & vegetarians
object to that)
even ol' Santa
ain't the same anymore
when you've seen thru his
disguise
at the department store
the ghost of
Christmas-Yet-to-Come
looks ugly grim & mean
unless the scourging
Scrooge in Man
decides to change the
scene
Saviour
Baby Jesus
in a tableau Virgin Birth
can hardly help us save
ourselves
let alone the bloody Earth

the year is nearly ended
as alas is this
the new one could be one
last chance
we can't afford to miss
so take a sprig of
imitation holly
spray on artificial snow
'tis the season to be
jolly
under the plastic
under the plastic
under the plastic
mistletoe