Love’s Tight Embrace
\nby cricketjeff on December 22, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThe chimney wasn’t quite as broad as Gordon had expected;
\nNext time, he vowed, he’d check to see the site had been inspected.
\nHis torso wedged immovably just halfway up (or down)
\nWith all his costume’s red and white transformed to black and brown.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 She bubbled like an eight year old and carefully composed
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The speech she’d make the moment that her Santa Claus proposed.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 But what was all the thumping and the banging from above?
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Her mind did not associate such thundering with love.<\/p>\n
He wriggled to the left and right and tried to think thin thoughts,
\nHe wished he’d eaten fewer sweets and tried a few more sports,
\nThen slowly, oh so slowly, he descended inch by inch,
\nWhile bits of brick and who-knows-what discovered how to pinch.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 She hardly knew what she should do, to scream or look and see,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 To understand the hubbub, or abandon bravery.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 But soon this raw dilemma would resolve in clouds of soot,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 When she first saw the waggle of her suitor’s booted foot.<\/p>\n
At last the close constriction of his rounder parts abated,
\nAnd like a punctured rugby ball he noisily deflated.
\nHe wasn’t quite magnificent, nor even almost smart,
\nBut Gordon felt immense relief he still could play his part.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 She tried to show compassion for her would be Father C.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 But all her good intentions turned to base hilarity.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 They wed, of course, when he was clean (it took a year or so)
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 And now reside together in a flueless bungalow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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