Christmas Bound Poem by Herbert Nehrlich

The season now is truly finished
and all our funds are well diminished.
I know a trick of how to be
by Easter, thinner and debt free.

Stop eating, use the fat that's stored,
the calories you ate while bored
and those that came inside a glass,
just have a look at your fat ass!

So, now you fast for forty days
and then commence another phase
when celery and lettuce greens
will be your new survival means.

You save a bundle on the food
(though it may modify your mood) ,
and with the dough that you don't spend
you pay the banker, in the end.

Debt free you get some hot-cross buns
and Easter ham, there's tons and tons.
Adipocytes fill up again
dress size awhile ago was ten.

But listen, chub, you have the time
to make amends, undo the crime.
Start counting days from Easter eh?
And dollars saved from all that pay.

So eat, make merry 'til July
then stop the chips, the beer and pie.
And when the season comes around
you're free of debt and Christmas bound.