A little help

This Christmas Eve sublime

From Walmart's metal shelves

"Be My Valentine"

A Little Debbie sweetly delves.

If Santa's big-box discount store

So boldly asks for more,

Go Tell It On the Mountain, Men,

That When I Fall In Love,

I want the Hallelujah Chorus sung

By a thousand handsome elves!

Calico Christmas

Family is on my mind, that, and the perplexing say-it-aint-so axiom that you can't get there from here.  Missing many, many, and holding the lonesomeness as a tattered calico square tucked in my pocket to touch whom I cannot whenever I may. Threadbare, perhaps, but still, safe, warm and well.