winter wonderless

winter in southern california
christmas day is less than 75 degress away

like a toy soldier
marching to outlet malls

fill baskets brimming
spending outragous security perimiters

sales and final calls
slipping in between shopping stalls

christmas sales has
greenhouse gases rising

go far away
take me home
to my roots
where the cold

eats the shivers out of turdelneck sweaters.