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  2. From: fmayhar@altair.mpd.tandem.com (Frank Mayhar)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
  4. Subject: Here's one for you guys.
  5. Message-ID: <3204@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
  6. Date: 22 Dec 92 20:24:39 GMT
  7. Sender: news@devnull.mpd.tandem.com
  8. Reply-To: fmayhar@mpd.tandem.com
  9. Organization: Tandem Computers (MPD) Austin, TX
  10. Lines: 35
  11.  
  12. Christmas being my least favorite time of year, I knocked this off to express
  13. my sentiment.  Comments/criticism OK.
  14.  
  15.  
  16.                 Christmas
  17.  
  18.             Frantic parents
  19.             Screaming children
  20.             A hundred hundred greedy, spendthrift
  21.                 Fools.
  22.  
  23.             Buying this toy
  24.             Shunning that store
  25.             "You can't have this one, I saw it there
  26.                 First!"
  27.  
  28.             Spending money
  29.             Piling presents
  30.             The one who piles the highest wins a
  31.                 Prize?
  32.  
  33.             Exhortations
  34.             Expectations
  35.             Your patriotic duty is to
  36.                 Spend!
  37.  
  38.             And in the corner
  39.             Under cardboard
  40.             A homeless, hopeless orphan waits and
  41.                 Starves.
  42.  
  43. -- 
  44. Frank Mayhar  fmayhar@mpd.tandem.com
  45.               Tandem Computers, Inc.  Micro Products Division
  46.               14231 Tandem Blvd., Austin, TX  78728    Phone:  (512) 244-8969
  47.