Monday, January 3, 2011

Spent

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Spent

The holidays as revelers
have finally exhausted themselves,
and the furor, tinsel, paper horns,
and champagne bubbles fade,
like watching the relatives drive off
in their caravans, becoming tiny
at the end of the street, headed home,
back to their lives.

Glenn Buttkus

January 2011

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