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