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      This is When You Light That First Candle Against the Darkness

Ordinary Time is now as summer’s lost leaves
Autumn has fallen into fogs and frosts
Pale sunshine flickers from shallow angles all day
Marking out the road to Bethlehem

Before the Altar in the parish church
A wreath is set with four candles to light
The first one today and a second next week
A third, a fourth, and then at last the Stable

The Stable at last, where the universe sings
The happy Desire of all our wanderings

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                                  The Last Day in Ordinary Time

Time is not at all ordinary, of course
It is an ordinal of flowing days
Whose current in its journey swims among
The well-marked seasons of sacred observances

Advent into and through Christmas and its promise
Lent into and through Easter and its fulfillment
Cycles of seasons, penance, and merry feasts
Each as a step in the great dance of Creation

All seasons echo God’s eternal rhyme
Blessing our senses with His created time

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                         Give Your Guns a Merry Little Christmas

Our number one priority is safety this is not who we are there is no active shooter situation at this time out of an abundance of caution violence is never acceptable active aggressor shockwave our thoughts and prayers will be held fully accountable we are better than this if only these teachers would monitor everyone’s social media non-life-threatening unacceptable knew each other isolated incident senseless act of violence I raised my son better than that that’s not the (name) I knew our hearts go out ongoing investigation possible links acting alone he was turning his life around mayor condemns gun violence I thought giving my son an AR would help with his emotional therapy when you go home tonight just hug your children this is a developing story

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                   A Parliamentary Validation of Guy Fawkes

The death-penalty ban has been reversed
But will members of Parliament want to go first?

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    The Most Obscene Words Ever with regard to Christmas Music


"As arranged by"

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          The Mostest Magicalist Familiestest Christmas Ever

She will make this the most magical family Christmas ever
With the perfect tree
The perfect gifts
The perfect table
The perfect meal
The perfect ambience
The perfect decorations

A memory worthy of inclusion in a Hallmark movie
She will make this the most magical family Christmas ever

No matter how many children she reduces to tears for it

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                         The Guard in Her Petite Boots

All visitors and volunteers must be escorted
My assigned minder greeted me with a smile
And didn’t wand me or search me for contraband
Perhaps it was because of my innocent face

She called me “sir” without any sarcasm
And led me through the lobby to the clanking doors
And in her little boots almost danced along
The reception area’s freshly-polished floors

Searching out the warmth-seeking crickets of autumn
And stomping every one of them