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A No Fat Rhyme for Holiday Time
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Posted on Dec 23 2004
for those going home and those already there
a minuscule tome, a pleasure to share
to help you enjoy this season so fair
a semantic alloy to read in your chair
enjoy those candy canes and treats to eat
when New Year arrives its back on your feet
for willful walking and other exercise
to take off those pounds we all despise
who cares for now? what smells so good?
it’s time for chow in the neighborhood
eating repeating and eating again
we will stop but who knows when
bifstek with smashed potatoes and gravy
gollai hagun suni and beans ala navy
kadun pika, kankong and mustard greens
fresh baked pumpkin pie now enters the scenes
sashimi, chachalon and fish head stew
birenghenas no ma lechi niyok with titiyas too
wonton soup, lumpia and sweet and sour pork
all flow down the gullet with chopstick or fork
more turkey and dressing and cranberry jelly
and fattening pastries to fill up your belly
for those who say humbug so sour and dour
try smiling and singing you’ll soon feel the power
remember those who are less fortunate than you
put yourself in their shoes and you’ll know what to do
well friends that’s all for now – I gave it a lick
have some holiday fun with or without St. Nick
adios todos hamyo yan suetti para pagu
may your plates be filled with bula bunelos dagu
Felis Pascua from fat jolly old me
Si Pepe Batbon, Mr. Joe Connolly
Author’s note – this is a slightly revised version of a poem that first appeared ten years ago in Vol. 1 No. 3 Dec. 1994 – I Gasetan Eskuelan Tinian
(Joe Connolly)
