NEWSPOEM 95 XMAS

FM -- Stories of Christmas presents past. A tribute to heroically cheerful retail employees. Static whining like Bosnian wind. A carnival of unnecessary expenditure concluded, stores and offices remain closed and the economy collapses like a malnourished sprinter. Dean Martin dead at 78. Planecrash flight 965 deadliest in 7 years. Santa claus in military base in Tuzla. Chow was alright -- I've had better, I've had worse. If we only ate one proper meal in 1995, we have just finished and bloated with meat and alcohol we descend into uselessness. The poor remain invisible beneath a white shroud of static drifting from the sky.