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Date Posted: 18:30:42 11/23/06 Thu
Author: Antipodi
Author Host/IP: CPE-58-168-153-40.vic.bigpond.net.au / 58.168.153.40
Subject: Alone for Christmas

I sat staring at the whiskey bottle
You are my true friend ..my Santa Clause
For you bring me oblivion... true release
TV shows smiling families at Christmas Feast
Mine is a TV Dinner...It does have a Santa on the Box
The Microwave pings like Christmas Bells

I open the fridge door for another Bottle
I was well stocked...
Not Much food ...but plenty of Christmas cheer in a bottle
No one had sent me a card this year...
I guess they were all just too busy...
What has happened to my family

I took another sip and swallow...
It felt warm and I would soon be in oblivion
I turned to the TV...They were singing Christmas carols
Peace and Goodwill to all men...as if they really cared
Tomorrow ..Santa will call..They will have their dinners
Then it would be business as usual..

Why do all my bills seem to come at Christmas
I imagined the Gas Bill was a Christmas card
"Merry Christmas from the Gasman you have seven days to pay"
The cold metallic reality of life touched me on the shoulder
Nobody really cares..sure they all put a few pennies in the charity tins
But many do this once a year and forget for the rest

What has happened to humanity...I became a drunken philosopher
They were just too occupied with their lives and possessions
New cars for Christmas, Huge Christmas feasts, Holidays overseas
Families have become only a means or reason to take more and more
I took a long sip...I felt the warm liquid waft me further away
I would drift into a drunken stupor...The room was spinning

An Ambulance came..Lights and bells flashed
Desperate sounds of lifesaving thumps
The body only smiled...staring into a vacant world
The mind had begun a journey beyond to freedom
The bells rang out on Christmas eve as the Ambulance reached the Hospital
"He died of an enlarged liver " the doctor said

We had better notify his next of kin...
They wheeled him out on a trolley...
A radio was heard singing "I'll be home for Christmas"

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