What Hidden Stories Are Unfolding This New Year at Home?

New Year’s Eve fireworks explode
and shell the midnight skies
after grammatically thicko teenage terrorists with their little bombs throwed
have already beated ear drums of jumpy elderly passer-bys into submission and into hiding.

Funny how in a world claiming to want peace,
the new year is seen in
to a planned frenzy of endless war sounds to fire ceaselessly
in a massive bombardment of crackers din.

Pets too have given up on their so-called human superiors and gone into hiding
running to the nearest refuge in a home of intoxicated revellers.
New year resolutions slurred out like no more predictions earnestly promised by fortune tellers
and hopes for new year conquests by war mongering lovers.

We had a quiet night in
on the home front, eating and drinking
as midnight mayhem was counted down to blast off from ten.
Met you before but don’t remember who. Saw in 2026 but don’t remember when.

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