I Always Doubted Santa Klaus

In childhood i was not naive

and found some things hard to believe.

I always had a nagging doubt

of the fables they handed out.

Let’s take that revered old St. Nick,

who was a consumerist trick.

designed for making people spend

what they can’t afford in the end.

All our parents seemed to buy it;

most children didn’t deny it.

So all kinds of garbage is sold

for prices inflated twofold.

But i always demanded proof

that there were reindeer on the roof.

Walt Abbott–8-24-2009