'Tis the Christmas season again. No matter if you have any sort of affiliated religious connection to this major U.S. holiday, is of no interest to me. I just know it's worthwhile to consider it a special time of year. And that's a "Happy Holidays" to members of the gang factions, too. They seem to celebrate this time of year as well, in their own certain way.


Oh, Glorious Night

It's a typical night
In this famous village,
With the peasants performing
Their usual pillage,
With gunshots galore
At a drug transaction,
Relieving our streets
Of gang impaction,
Oh, glorious night
Our business is good,
Emergency patrons
The boys in the hood.

There's a typical crowd
In the waiting room,
A grim faced bunch
All dire and doom,
Posturing boldly
With threatening looks,
Like evil transgressors
In comic books,
Oh, glorious night
In this Christmas season,
Who are we saving
And what is the reason?

Do unto others
As they do unto you,
This teenager wants
A stitch and some glue,
A colt 45
With a nine shot clip,
Fully automatic
He shoots from the hip,
He's a wired little monster
Looking for a fight,
Deck the halls with dead bodies
On this Christmas night.

Fibril_late; 12/94