December 20: Funny and Heartbreaking and Beautiful, George Starbuck, "Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree"

Okay, I just love this poem.  Period.  I just came across it, and it sort of took my breath away.  It's funny and heartbreaking and beautiful.

Saint Marty wishes he had written this.

Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree

by:  George Starbuck

* O fury- bedecked! O glitter-torn! Let the wild wind erect bonbonbonanzas; junipers affect frostyfreeze turbans; iciclestuff adorn all cuckolded creation in a madcap crown of horn! It’s a new day; no scapegrace of a sect tidying up the ashtrays playing Daughter-in-Law Elect; bells! bibelots! popsicle cigars! shatter the glassware! a son born now now while ox and ass and infant lie together as poor creatures will and tears of her exertion still cling in the spent girl’s eye and a great firework in the sky                                            drifts to the western hill.