Card #1: Variety ft. Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole

Although it's been said many times

Many ways, Merry Christmas to you

                             Nat King Cole,

                             The Christmas Song

If there was another way of saying Merry Christmas,

What would it be?

What feel would the phrase kick up?

A million and one times

I have pushed for something appropriate;

A word, a phrase.

Trying for variety, if you please.

If that strikes you as nuts, I won’t argue.

But I only want to shoot my message with creative force,

Mail it in over the transom.

I’m heavy with inspiration

Which don’t seem well acquainted with dialect.

Words make me inept.

I’m like storm cloud that’s forgotten how to turn its tummy.

Isn’t there someone who feels likewise?

Someone who knows the words or gestures that’s just right?

And while I’ll Google and Google, and for variety Google one more time,

Here’s a blast from the past that’s a golden gas:

Merry Christmas.

Eneh