Get to the first hour of December,
that new born minute
and somewhere in the world
you will stop breathing,
your chest will stop
and people will grieve;
the year has been the perfect assassin
with stealthy fleet foot,
yet there is still more time to play,
celebrity is always in vogue.
The thirty one days, counting
down because that is what we do,
we cross off the days in our heads
and with marker pen
on the free
and easy calendars that we received