Seasons Greetings from a non-believer

[LJay]

I knew a guy in college who needed money to get home at the holidays. He decided to sell Christmas cards to raise money. They sold for a dollar each and he made enough money to get home and back.

Very nice, simple card that said "Merry Christmas Goddammit."

[LJay]

And for you , Londoner, a favorite poem:

from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind published by New Directions

CHRIST CLIMBED DOWN

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no rootless Christmas trees
hung with candycanes and breakable stars

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no gilded Christmas trees
and no tinsel Christmas trees
and no tinfoil Christmas trees
and no pink plastic Christmas trees
and no gold Christmas trees
and no black Christmas trees
and no powderblue Christmas trees
hung with electric candles
and encircled by tin electric trains
and clever cornball relatives

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
no intrepid Bible salesmen
covered the territory
in two-tone cadillacs
and where no Sears Roebuck crèches
complete with plastic babe in manger
arrived by parcel post
the babe by special delivery
and where no televised Wise Men
praised the Lord Calvert Whiskey

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
no fat handshaking stranger
in a red flannel suit
and a fake white beard
went around passing himself off
as some sort of North Pole saint
crossing the desert to Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
in a Volkswagen sled
drawn by rollicking Adirondack reindeer
with German names
and bearing sacks of Humble Gifts
from Saks Fifth Avenue
for everybody’s imagined Christ child

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
no Bing Crosby carolers
groaned of a tight Christmas
and where no Radio City angels
iceskated wingless
thru a winter wonderland
into a jinglebell heaven
daily at 8:30
with Midnight Mass matinees

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and softly stole away into
some anonymous Mary’s womb again
where in the darkest night
of everybody’s anonymous soul
He awaits again
an unimaginable
and impossibly
Immaculate Reconception
the very craziest
of Second Comings

[Anocxu]

What do we do when Christmas actually comes around?

[AlfredM]

Welp, I'm not a believer either,but Merry Christmas y'all~

[LJay]

You find little kids and look at their sparkling eyes and they will show you that we all can be new again.

[jimcrackcorn]

What do we do when Christmas actually comes around?

Go fishing??????

Or,,, you could buy me a brand-new Jaguar Convertible with leather interior and a big angry high performance engine...........

With lots of love & caring,
Jim

[Anocxu]

The new aluminum line of Jaguars ..

Or...



A pair of jet packs on your ass?

[jimcrackcorn]

The new aluminum line of Jaguars ..

Or...



A pair of jet packs on your ass?

That Jaguar is so sexy that it makes my mouth water!!!

The atomic sphincter is kinda cute too..

Can I have both????

Please!!

Jimerooo

[Anocxu]

That Jaguar is so sexy that it makes my mouth water!!!

The atomic sphincter is kinda cute too..

Can I have both????

Please!!

Jimerooo

Rotfl...
Lmao..

Mental image ;
You speeding down the freeway in your new Jaguar with your ass spewing flames.

[LJay]

Give up Jim. Anocxu wants the atomic sphincter to complete his collection.