Source: Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
“Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.”
Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”
Source: 88 Poems
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
"Under No Circumstances Will Michelle Yeoh Be Serving a Christmas Turkey" in Vogue (19 November 2019) https://www.vogue.com/article/michelle-yeoh-interview-last-christmas
The Wild Flag (1943)
Context: This is the dream we had, asleep in our chair, thinking of Christmas in the lands of fir tree and pine, Christmas in lands of palm tree and vine, and of how the one great sky does for all places and all people.
After the third great war was over (this was a curious dream), there was no more than a handful of people left alive, and the earth was in ruins and the ruins were horrible to behold. The people, the survivors, decided to meet to talk over their problem and to make a lasting peace, which is the customary thing to make after a long and exhausting war. There were eighty-three countries, and each country sent a delegate to the convention. One English-man came, one Peruvian, one Ethiopian, one Frenchman, one Japanese, and so on, until every country was represented.
