Chocolate Santas
And red-nosed reindeer
Blinking lights
And candy canes, dear.
Battered budgets
"Get tree and trim it!"
Strain our good will
to the limit.
Cocktail parties
And trendy dollies
How we deck our halls with folly!
All to indicate what this is.
It's celebration!
But is it Christmas?
Mid all devised to tease us and please us,
Whatever happened to Baby Jesus? BY VIRGINIA BALDUS