Poetry: Mixed Up Holidays (earlier and earlier)

Jolly pumpkin
in August
They already have Halloween
on the shelves
Ghosts and ghouls are there year round
They don't wait for October.
The next aisle over
are red holly berries in green leaves
stockings and figurines
Might as well set up
your winter wonderlands
while it is a hundred degrees
outside.
And turkeys go gobble gobble
on placeholder napkins
and gravy boats
for Grandma's evening dinner
complete with cranberry jelly.
I wonder if they all get confused:
Spooky ghosts
haunt Santa's elves
while being pursued by
a clueless turkey.


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