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The King of Christmas

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A new Christmas poem by Carol Ann Duffy
Illustrations by Lara Hawthorne

Bored, the Baron mooched in his Manor
on the brink of belligerence. Life lacked glamour
and Christmas was coming. The Baroness,
past her best, oozed ennui, stitched away
at a tapestry. The old Retainer polished brass.
The Baron felt like kicking his arse.

Outside the leaded window – snow,
snow on snow; the ground an inkless folio.
What to do to enliven life? To put some fizz
on the viz of the wife? Even the hounds,
in a stupor, snored. The son and heir,
party-pooper, piously prone in prayer, as per.

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