Christmas Every Week: Commercial Christmas!
Arnold Kellett’s poem emphasises the sad truth that Christmas has become a festival of commercialism.
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Hurry, hurry! Get the sales in quick this year:
Easter eggs in January shops
Announce that summer's drawing near:
Far too early? Oh, come off it!
Early birds catch juicy profit.
Cut-throat competition clamours,
Sets the pace and calls the tune,
Scorns the seasons, bludgeons custom,
Selling Christmas cards in June;
And Santa's never in the red
Two jumps and half a year ahead!
Ever earlier Christmas pushes,
Forceful, false and out of place;
Come, ye money-spinning punters,
Join the annual reindeer-race!
And fix your thoughts, quite unperplexed,
Not on this Christmas - but the next!
