This year from Santa, did you get
What you wished for, or feel regret
For reaching in your stocking's sole
You found a great big lump of coal
And did you have a merry feast
Complete with wine and roasted beast
Or dine along with all your pride
On Big Macs or Kentucky Fried
Was all your loving family there
With bounty rich enough to share
Or did your dear wife's brother leave
With your new Rolex up his sleeve
Did you pay off all gifts you bought
So now for Christmas, you owe naught
Or did you sign away your life
And borrow cash from "Mac the Knife"
Well, if because you are so wise
You won another Nobel Prize
Or found instead, what luck you had
Was just a word to follow "bad"
I hope you have a grand New Year
Where bullish markets reappear
And only boats with seams that fail
Are all we ever, out must bail
Carol Smith
West Seattle