I had to write a "Charater Poem" in my English 3 Honors class. I hate when teachers assign poems, becuase poems are ART. How can you grade art? I mean, art teachers do, but that's different. You know? All he seemed to care about was length! If it was a long poem, it was a GREAT poem. Length is NOT the definition of greatest. Some of the BEST works of literary art are SHORT. The ability to express exactly what you want to in a single verse, sentence, or--even better-- a single word is amazing.

But that's what he wanted. A not necessarily long, but NOT short poem that COULD NOT RHYME, and it had to be about a character either fiction or real.

I wrote mine, literally, the night before it was due.

I just got to thinking about how creepy it is that parents throw their kids on any stranger's lap this time of year just because they are wearing a red suit and white beard. They even have one at Walmart! That one freaked me out. I walked by with my mom and he looked up at me with that creepy guy look. I turned to my mother and told her to hit me if I ever did that to my (future) kids. She told me she thought it was creepy too, and that the only Santa I went to see when i was little was a family friend.

So, that's what I wrote about. I'm not saying that's the only thing it could be about, though. Different people get different interptretations. Perfect example, Heather Rubino thought it was about a girl getting raped by her drunk dad.

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So...um...

Merry Christmas to all?
And to all a good night?