Stuck
 

Santa’s stuck you say? 
In the chimney of course.
 

The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling
soot-faced and yelling like a Salvation
Army bellringer for charitable attention­– 
waking the whole damn sleeping house.
 

Rudolf shining his nose-red lamp
down the flue at his struggling boss,
barely suppressing a snicker.
 

Wondering if the old grog-soused fart
just hasn’t had too many milk and cookies?
 

Or tippled too much candy cane schnapps!   
 

Ed Higgins has had poems and short fiction published in various print and online journals including: Danse Macabre, Modern Haiku, Statement Magazine, and Tigershark Magazine. Ed has a small organic farm in Yamhill, OR, raising a menagerie of animals—including a rooster named StarTrek.

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