Siinter Klaas

I saw him today, I swear
on the sidewalk beard and all

yessir,

with a burlap sack of treasures in a battered shopping cart.
He was walking past some guy in a red suit
ringing a bell chiming gimme gimme-

quite unlike santa, who didn’t beg
and sat slouched alone with a bottle of paper bag wine.

Ben Meyer-Alaska

©2002

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