For a “religious” holiday, Christmas
Is for sales: Each year we borrow to spend
More than other years—mister or missus.
Symbol that our debt to God is not pretend?
God’s benevolent merchant holiday
Keeps America exception’ly great;
We can ever delay the day we pay
By increasing our retail selling rate.
Christmas bolsters our capitalism,
Is loved by the Fed’ral Trade Commission,
And flatters us for our wisdom—
Hardly regulating competition.
So long as Christmas in this country sells,
America will proudly jingle bells.
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Author’s note: I am indebted to Ken Marks’s brilliant identification of some of America’s core “centrisms,” which inspired Thor’s doggerel for today. See Ken’s December 4 article, “Curing cancer.”
Copyright © 2012 by Morris Dean
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