I've chosen
Bing Crosby
and Vera Lynn
to fill the suburban silences
of this
sparsely attended Christmas
though snow and sleigh bells
seem
incongruous up against the backdrop
of dried up leaves
and galahs
there's something
about their excessive vibrato
their gentle style
that has led me to forsake
Kylie
and Mariah Carey's anthems,
Wham's ubiquitous
'Last Christmas'.
It's comforting to have
representation
of that generation
lost to us through death
and distance
now that the grey hair
beneath the novelty hats
belongs to their sons
and daughters
if we can remind ourselves of them
in whatever small
abstract
way we can
surely that is a Christmas gift
we can
and should
give ourselves
every year.
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