The grey ghoul masks, tan mummy wraps,
black witch's hats and corpse green Frankenstein faces
haven't hit the bottom of the bin before
mince pies jockey for a place beside the hot-cross buns.
Halloween and Christmas are squeezed together
tighter than a coin’s width.
Tinsel boy band advent calendars
sell 24 chocolate milestones
on the road to obesity.
Supermarkets offer a sanitised Christmas
religion rinsed away
like bacteria on a chlorine washed turkey.
They trade a childless nativity like
pies without mince;
sultan-less fruit cake;
plum-less pudding;
an unstuffed winter holiday roast.
People wonder where our culture has gone:
we sold it for a midden
of conveniently packaged banality.
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM UTC
The grey ghoul masks, tan mummy wraps,
black witch's hats and corpse green Frankenstein faces
haven't hit the bottom of the bin before
mince pies jockey for a place beside the hot-cross buns.
Halloween and Christmas are squeezed together
tighter than a coin’s width.
Tinsel boy band advent calendars
sell 24 chocolate milestones
on the road to obesity.
Supermarkets offer a sanitised Christmas
religion rinsed away
like bacteria on a chlorine washed turkey.
They trade a childless nativity like
pies without mince;
sultan-less fruit cake;
plum-less pudding;
an unstuffed winter holiday roast.
People wonder where our culture has gone:
we sold it for a midden
of conveniently packaged banality.
Reflections on the commercialisation of Christmas and the loss of cultural capital that results.
Midden - a ******* tip