<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death Of Santa Claus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's had the chest pains for weeks,<br>but doctors don't make house<br>calls to the North Pole,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he's let his Blue Cross lapse,<br>blood tests make him faint,<br>hospital gown always flap</div><div style="margin:10px 0">open, waiting rooms upset<br>his stomach, and it's only<br>indigestion anyway, he thinks,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until, feeding the reindeer,<br>he feels as if a monster fist<br>has grabbed his heart and won't</div><div style="margin:10px 0">stop squeezing. He can't<br>breathe, and the beautiful white<br>world he loves goes black,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he drops on his jelly belly<br>in the snow and Mrs. Claus<br>tears out of the toy factory</div><div style="margin:10px 0">wailing, and the elves wring<br>their little hands, and Rudolph's<br>nose blinks like a sad ambulance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">light, and in a tract house<br>in Houston, Texas, I'm 8,<br>telling my mom that stupid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">kids at school say Santa's a big<br>fake, and she sits with me<br>on our purple-flowered couch,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and takes my hand, tears<br>in her throat, the terrible<br>news rising in her eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harper+Webb">Charles Harper Webb</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354815" data-title="The Death Of Santa Claus de Charles Harper Webb" data-description="He's had the chest pains for weeks, but doctors don't make house calls to the North Pole, he's let his Blue Cross lapse, blood tests make him faint, hospital gown always flap open, waiting rooms upset his stomach, and it's only indigestion anywa..."></div> </div> </div>

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