![]() Christmas CancelledA Chapter by Dave Brown![]() 😉![]() With Mrs. Clause repeating,
Christmas is coming Santa had his
toy shop a-humming Three shifts
were working the conveyor line Things had to
get done, in triple quick time Games and
puzzles were stacked on the floor A dozen hockey
sticks by the front door Doll dresses and
hoodies, to ship far offshore Then the power
went off, which caused an uproar When the lights
went out, the factory went black Immediately,
production went off track With toy
production being badly cut back It was
imperative they get power back Santa made a cell
call to the hydro store Explaining he
needed lots of volts more The foreman
repeated what he’d been told The hydro authority
had been recent sold The purchaser, from
way out of town Was going to
pull the whole place down He was going to put
up a huge condo Which meant the
old place must go Santa’s work
shop would go bankrupt With mortgage
payments, he couldn’t keep up They would have
to shut the workshop down Cuz Santa’s
conveyor couldn’t work on cold ground With Christmas coming
about a day away Santa couldn’t
meet his staff’s pay Presents would
have to be cancelled this year Santa would have
to fire his Reindeer The awful news
spread over the air Like a raging wildfire,
causing despair Then children
from all over the globe Arrived to instigate
an investigative probe They came in hordes,
across seven seas Over the
mountains, through forests of trees Thousands
marched from each town They weren’t
going to let their Santa down Out of hi-rise
towers in moving masses Across farmlands,
flooding the pastures Filling every
kind of available limousine To empty both
Zanzibar and Aberdeen They flew in airliners
over the land Crossed the desert
over hot sand And when the trains
were too full inside They stuck out
thumbs and hitched a ride Skateboards and
scooters, day and night Over the Arctic,
took a rocket ship flight Nuclear
Submarines took them neath the sea One tiny cowboy,
saddled the back of a flea A Christmas Humbug
was ready to pay To have the
power station demolished next day A giant Bulldozer
was driving their way It was clanking
straight down the freeway Shaking ground, a
foreboding sound Everything
rumbled and shook all round A gigantic
Bulldozer crushed over the ground Soon the power
station wouldn’t be found The Christmas Humbug
was Harley McSplit And for
Christmas, he gave not a Whit He didn’t care
about any Xmas spirit His bulldozer’d
plow down all traces of it As the Dozer was
approaching the station Millions of
children arrived from each Nation They were like a
great onrushing tide And they were
there to take Santa’s side To the power
station, McSplit was outraced Megaguzzillions
of children were what he faced Though he had
tried to make great haste His very best
efforts were badly erased A little voice
called out from the crowd Stopping mean
Harley was what they had vowed With gazillions
of children yelling out loud Harley gave in, his
head hung and bowed When he saw the
wee child with that first shout It made him
realize what Christmas was all about His feelings now
took a great turnaround He’d no longer bulldoze
the Power Station down The pause in
production had created demand Till reindeers
returned, Santa’d be undermanned So, Harley
offered to give him a hand That toys could
again, flow like grains of sand McSplit restored
power that very day And the Toy Shop
mortgage he made go away In the North Pole,
Santa could forever now stay Making toys which
most children mislay With Harley having
made his amends He found he hadatona
new friends Now down in the Tropics,
his time he spends Which is where
this Christmas poem ends © 2020 Dave BrownReviews
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