TWO "Black Friday" POEMS

"BLACK FRIDAY" O CLEVER MAN!
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O clever Man
         with all your
             vaunted insights
and your Speech
          "for endless palaver..."
when you needed
    a name    
         for the Christmas 
shopping season  following
      Thanksgiving.    the time
celebrating the Birth
    of the Saviour of the world---
AH !!!!!
      you chose HAPPY FRIDAY!
How marvelous, how wonderful!
                WHAT?
No, no...please NO!

NOT "BLACK FRIDAY."


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"BEGINNING THE GREAT SEASON...
     BLACK FRIDAY"

Oh bright Mankind...
    Ye who are so intelligent,
so incisive, so perceptive, 
    and so brilliant...
you self-styled know-it-alls...

With such noble  hopes 
     and dreams      aspirations
for you and your progeny    and
     abilities and progress
unsurpassed in the language
      with writers  and poets galore...

So that...

When approaching Advent 
    and the season of giving which
starts the celebration
     of the greatest news ever
heard in the Cosmos:
     "To you is born this day
in the city of David---
A Saviour which is 
                Christ the  Lord"
and someone...someone
          chose a name
for this unpassed 
      Season of Joy:
          "BLACK FRIDAY"

Oh how fine
     Oh how original
           Oh the intelligence
Oh the poetry!  ....and might
    it be... about money?

You brilliant ONES, maybe from
     The Press, here's some 
news for you;  I detest it.

Let's change it to 
      "HAPPY FRIDAY."
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MIL
Black Friday, 2018
November 23