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CHRISTMAS IS ALREADY SAD

CHRISTMAS IS ALREADY SAD

A poem. "Joy to the world, as the song goes."

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Aaron Belz
Dec 24, 2024
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Blue Christmas Service: When Christmas Hurts - Young Clergy Women  International

So. God secrets a zygote into a world
that doesn't want or understand it—
male, unilaterally installed in his mom.
His dad's first thought is divorce.

As for the season, it is tax season.
A few years later, thousands of kids
his age are cut down by a worried king.
Think of what those kids could have been.

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