Cancel Christmas! ! Poem by John Thorkild Ellison

Cancel Christmas, full of fraud,
Consumer madness (praise the Lord?)
Forget about the little Child,
'Little Jesus, meek and mild',
Just as long as you spend like mad
And get much more than you ever had -
What are those carols people sing,
Must they bring God into everything?
And all this talk of love and compassion,
Don't they know religion's out of fashion?
I want to enjoy my Christmas roast,
Not hear about Christ and the Holy Ghost!
The Bible's full of fairy tales,
Forget it all at the January Sales! !