The holidays are so full and strange, how do you put your finger on them? (They’re like angels, amorphous, without gender, age, bodily materiality.) Not knowing how to celebrate – what do Santa Claus and Jesus have to do with each other? – we languish, spin longrunning sentences over tea, segue from the faux pas of old racist boss at the holiday party to best of Wicked to why a mother didn’t keep her kid from eating cake off a slip of paper on the Penn Station floor. The thin veneer of civilization mentioned – it rubs off in uncivilized holiday travel –then we languish more, ferret out a few gray hairs among sisters, watch a tear form and magnify a gorgeous eye, then silently make its lonely trace down a soft cheek to the corner of a lip. Wonder again about that baby Jesú. Some of us run out to see the only positive connection, plump infants, bully infants in gold leaf on Italian medieval paintings – then come back to languish, it now obvious it is one very long sentence where the gossip keeps getting sharper, tarter – and the bonds of love more velvet. Keep talking, lest we lose our values and become self-branded products, milk and makeup brands ourselves. As a new world begs to be born but can’t figure out how the hell to do it. We keep talking, we’ve read 1001 Nights; as long as we don’t use the word “broken” — the most broken word ever –we’ll be spellbound together.
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