Poetry War: What I want for Christmas

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horsebarnKayuk, you’re one to talk.  You live in a barn!

You don’t just have cat hair in your soup, you have dog hair, hay and possibly microscopic bits of horse manure.

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Today’s poem  is about

what I want for Christmas.

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T’was only 50 years ago

my parents sold their home

to buy a thing called Mobilux,

the continent to roam.

Mobilux

While wintering beside a shed

my parents, over time,

began to build another home

by penny and by dime.

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With 7 years of traveling

the first floor finished then,

they moved into their new abode,

and promptly settled in.

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My father died the very year

the second floor was done,

my mother passing 7 years

from mowing in the sun.

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When I moved in, I brought with me,

A household full of  stuff,

then husband number 5 moved in,

with things more than enough!

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But then his mother passed away,

his sister moved in later,

and by the time all this was done,

our stuff could fill a freighter.

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For years I’ve asked my family

Please come and get the papers,

the china and the telescope,

the crystal and the vases.

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The magazines and instruments

the music and the books

the dressers, desks and other things

in crannies and in nooks.

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What do I want for Christmastime?

What I’ve asked every year.

Please rent a big old honking truck

and move stuff out of here!

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