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Paper Stars

• When with the winter Christmas came again
• The people wore their fake, courageous smile
• The street was dressed up prettily so rain
• Could make the branches sag, the street a Nile

• At home some paper stars adorned the room
• The plastic tree put in an empty niche
• Electric candles for a homey gloom
• And stilted Santas as a bit of kitsch

• No effort spared to find the perfect gift
• All harried women, clueless men shopped tired
• For goodies, but who dearest wished to drift
• Was Santa in a chair ho-hoing, hired

• A slave to children in this crazy season
• Which's not a cheer now, but a lack of reason