MERRY
by Shel Silverstein
No one’s hangin’ stockin’s up,
No one’s bakin’ pie,
No one’s lookin’ up to see
A new star in the sky.
No one’s talkin’ brotherhood,
No one’s givin’ gifts,
And no one loves a Christmas tree
On March the twenty-fifth.
THE TREE
by Jack Kerouac
The tree moving
in the moonlight
Wise to me
PHOTO: “Autumn tree at night” by Micspics444, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Caption: “We used your unsold copies to build a tree, but it’s not the same.”
CREDIT: New Yorker cartoon by Robert Leighton
Silver Birch Press 