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Christmas 10

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Christmas 10

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Look at that,

Lords leaping

We had to take this

Outside

The neighbors may look over

Though they rarely do

Unless they do

And how did I know that

They were lords?

It was on the dance cards

They provided

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The ladies wouldn’t like it:

There was one lord too many

No, wait,

It is a lord to be frustrated

By a dearth of one

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Though it’s only counting,

Everything’s confused

These ten thus-far

Days

Is it any wonder

From the wonders?

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Sigh,

I left them leaping

To go inside to ponder

Eleven

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C L Couch

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Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash

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Familiarize

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Familiarize

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It’s my brother’s birthday

I have brothers

I have a sister

So do you

We’re in this together

What did Franklin say,

We hang together

Or we or each hang

Separately

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That may sound crass

I may

A side-swipe at togetherness

I wish there were more

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I wish there were more

Friendliness

Maybe in the Midwest

Or the South

You know

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You know

The easy kind of

Hi, how-are-you kind

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And for a moment

We mean it

Then move on

As if we all were brothers

And a sister

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Our people

One by one

A crowd

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C L Couch

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Photo by Ravi Sharma on Unsplash

Street of Delhi, India.

Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, Delhi, India

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5783

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5783

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On this numbered

Christmas day

There is a new year

Counting as we do

By Gregory

Of course

It’s not new year

Yet

(or maybe before)

In other places

Other traditions

Counting

Whoever has a lunar year

Whoever numbers

Seasons

The Christian Orthodox

In a couple of weeks

Or so

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We

(dominating

west and north

and much of

east and south)

Being we

Might say

We have an atomic clock

And we prefer the sun

For clocks

That has lasted for a while

And

Will last

On our own

Until the Martian landings

Not only by machines

But by people

With machines

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When we shall have

Two clocks

On walls

In ships

On wrists

Intentional for

Arean negotiation

And for fashion

We start our chronicles

By keeping double time

That yes means fast

For Mars

Is a smaller planet

Get there

Get it fast

We need new years

On new Earths

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Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash

All that’s missing is Homer Simpson sleeping in a chair with a box of pink donuts nearby. This is the control panel of the first nuclear power plant ever built. I love the retro 1950s style, dials, buttons, and lights. This is a free museum located in a remote part of Idaho, that’s only open to the public for a few months each summer.

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