Subject: Re: [Healeys] FW: A COVID Christmas Poem

From: Warren Dietz <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:15:59 -0500

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'word-wrap:break-word'><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal>=E2=
=80=9C<span style=3D'color:#1F497D'>This is so good, I just had to share it=
=E2=80=9D<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'color:#1=
F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'colo=
r:#1F497D'>Yes it is! Thanks Steve.</span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p>&nb=
sp;</o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Sent from <a href=3D"https://go.microsoft=
.com/fwlink/?LinkId=3D550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=3DMsoNormal>=
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><div style=3D'mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;=
border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=3DMsoNor=
mal style=3D'border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href=3D"mailto:sbyers=
@ec.rr.com">BJ8Healeys</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, December 15, 2021 8:4=
1 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href=3D"mailto:[email-masked]">healeys@autox.=
team.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Healeys] FW: A COVID Christmas Poem</p></d=
iv><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><div><div style=3D'border:none=
;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=3DMsoNo=
rmal><span style=3D'color:#1F497D'>From a friend in Canada.&nbsp; This is s=
o good, I just had to share it.</span><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-=
family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=
=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",=
serif'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D=
'font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt=
;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div=
><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>&nbsp;</=
span><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><=
o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><blockquote style=3D'margin-=
top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><blockquote style=3D'margin-top:5.0pt;m=
argin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA=
 style=3D'font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span =
lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A Covid Christmas Poem<=
/span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-family:"Ca=
libri",sans-serif;color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span=
 lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Twas the night before =
Christmas, but Covid was here,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=
=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>So we all had to stay extra=
 cautious this year.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA sty=
le=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Our masks were all hung by the chimney =
with care</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-=
size:13.5pt;color:black'>In case Santa forgot his and needed a spare.</span=
></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;col=
or:black'>With Covid, we couldn't leave cookies or cake</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>So =
we left Santa hand sanitizer to take.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span=
 lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The children were slee=
ping, the brave little tots</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN=
-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The ones over 5 had just had the=
ir first shots,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D=
'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And mom in her kerchief and me in my cap</sp=
an></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;c=
olor:black'>Had just settled in for a long winter's nap.</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>But=
 we tossed and we turned all night in our beds</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonor=
mal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>As visions of=
 variants danced in our heads.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=
=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Gamma and Delta and now Omi=
cron</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:=
13.5pt;color:black'>These Covid mutations that go on and on</span></p><p cl=
ass=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>=
I thought to myself, &quot;If this doesn't get better,</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I'l=
l soon be familiar with every Greek letter&quot;.</span></p><p class=3Dxmso=
normal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then just =
as I started to drift off and doze</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span la=
ng=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A clatter of noise from t=
he front lawn arose.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA sty=
le=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I leapt from my bed and ran straight do=
wn the stair</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'fo=
nt-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I opened the door, and an old gent stood there.=
</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5=
pt;color:black'>His N 95 made him look pretty weird</span></p><p class=3Dxm=
sonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>But I kn=
ew who he was by his red suit and beard.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><s=
pan lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I kept six feet awa=
y but blurted out quick</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA =
style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>&quot; What are you doing here, joll=
y Saint Nick?&quot;</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA styl=
e=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then I said, &quot;Where's your presents=
, your reindeer and sleigh ?</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DE=
N-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Don't you know that tomorrow wi=
ll be Christmas Day? &quot;.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DE=
N-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And Santa stood there looking s=
ad in the snow</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'=
font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>As he started to tell me a long tale of woe.<=
/span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5p=
t;color:black'>He said he'd been stuck at the North Pole alone</span></p><p=
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k'>All his white collar elves had been working from home,</span></p><p clas=
s=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>An=
d most of the others said &quot;Santa, don't hire us!</span></p><p class=3D=
xmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>We can=
 live off the CERB now, thanks to the virus&quot;.</span></p><p class=3Dxms=
onormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Those lef=
t in the toyshop had little to do.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span la=
ng=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>With supply chain disrupt=
ions, they could make nothing new.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span la=
ng=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And as for the reindeer, =
they'd all gone away.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA st=
yle=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>None of them left to pull on his sleig=
h.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13=
.5pt;color:black'>He said Dasher and Dancer were in quarantine,</span></p><=
p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bla=
ck'>Prancer and Vixen refused the vaccine,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal>=
<span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Comet and Cupid w=
ere in ICU,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'fon=
t-size:13.5pt;color:black'>So were Donner and Blitzen, they may not pull th=
rough.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-siz=
e:13.5pt;color:black'>And Rudolph's career can't be resurrected.</span></p>=
<p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bl=
ack'>With his shiny red nose, they all think he's infected.</span></p><p cl=
ass=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>=
Even with his old sleigh, Santa couldn't go far.</span></p><p class=3Dxmson=
ormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Every borde=
r to cross needs a new PCR.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN=
-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Santa sighed as he told me how n=
ice it would be</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D=
'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>If children could once again sit on his knee=
.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.=
5pt;color:black'>He couldn't care less if they're naughty or nice</span></p=
><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:b=
lack'>But they'd have to show proof that they'd had their shot twice.</span=
></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;col=
or:black'>But then the old twinkle returned to his eyes.</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And=
 he said that he'd brought me a Christmas surprise.</span></p><p class=3Dxm=
sonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>When I u=
nwrapped the box and opened it wide,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span =
lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Starlight and rainbows =
streamed out from inside.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-C=
A style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Some letters whirled round and fle=
w up to the sky</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D=
'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And they spelled out a word that was 40 feet=
 high.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-siz=
e:13.5pt;color:black'>There first was an H, then an O, then a P,</span></p>=
<p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bl=
ack'>Then I saw it spelled HOPE when it added the E.</span></p><p class=3Dx=
msonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>&quot;C=
hristmas magic&quot; said Santa as he smiled through his beard.</span></p><=
p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bla=
ck'>Then suddenly all of the reindeer appeared.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsono=
rmal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>He jumped in=
to his sleigh and he waved me good-bye,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><sp=
an lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then he soared o'er =
the rooftops and into the sky.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=
=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I heard him exclaim as he d=
rove out of sight</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=
=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>&quot;Get your vaccines my friends, Merry=
 Christmas, good-night&quot;.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3D=
EN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then I went back to bed and a =
sweet Christmas dream</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA st=
yle=3D'font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Of a =
world when we'd finished with Covid 19.</span></p><div><p class=3Dxmsonorma=
l><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'=
>&nbsp;</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><=
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g=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><br>Joseph David</span></p=
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 06:00:25 -0500 (EST)

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Love this.tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Warren Dietz <[email-masked]>
To: BJ8Healeys <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Sent: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:15:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [Healeys] FW: A COVID Christmas Poem

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-->=E2=80=9CThis is so good, I just had to share it=E2=80=9D Yes it is! Tha=
nks Steve. Sent from Mail for Windows From: BJ8Healeys
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 8:41 PM
To: [email-masked]
Subject: [Healeys] FW: A COVID Christmas Poem From a friend in Canada.  Thi=
s is so good, I just had to share it.    A Covid Christmas Poem Twas the ni=
ght before Christmas, but Covid was here,So we all had to stay extra cautio=
us this year.Our masks were all hung by the chimney with careIn case Santa =
forgot his and needed a spare.With Covid, we couldn't leave cookies or cake=
So we left Santa hand sanitizer to take.The children were sleeping, the bra=
ve little totsThe ones over 5 had just had their first shots,And mom in her=
 kerchief and me in my capHad just settled in for a long winter's nap.But w=
e tossed and we turned all night in our bedsAs visions of variants danced i=
n our heads.Gamma and Delta and now OmicronThese Covid mutations that go on=
 and onI thought to myself, "If this doesn't get better,I'll soon be famili=
ar with every Greek letter".Then just as I started to drift off and dozeA c=
latter of noise from the front lawn arose.I leapt from my bed and ran strai=
ght down the stairI opened the door, and an old gent stood there.His N 95 m=
ade him look pretty weirdBut I knew who he was by his red suit and beard.I =
kept six feet away but blurted out quick" What are you doing here, jolly Sa=
int Nick?"Then I said, "Where's your presents, your reindeer and sleigh ?Do=
n't you know that tomorrow will be Christmas Day? ".And Santa stood there l=
ooking sad in the snowAs he started to tell me a long tale of woe.He said h=
e'd been stuck at the North Pole aloneAll his white collar elves had been w=
orking from home,And most of the others said "Santa, don't hire us!We can l=
ive off the CERB now, thanks to the virus".Those left in the toyshop had li=
ttle to do.With supply chain disruptions, they could make nothing new.And a=
s for the reindeer, they'd all gone away.None of them left to pull on his s=
leigh.He said Dasher and Dancer were in quarantine,Prancer and Vixen refuse=
d the vaccine,Comet and Cupid were in ICU,So were Donner and Blitzen, they =
may not pull through.And Rudolph's career can't be resurrected.With his shi=
ny red nose, they all think he's infected.Even with his old sleigh, Santa c=
ouldn't go far.Every border to cross needs a new PCR.Santa sighed as he tol=
d me how nice it would beIf children could once again sit on his knee.He co=
uldn't care less if they're naughty or niceBut they'd have to show proof th=
at they'd had their shot twice.But then the old twinkle returned to his eye=
s.And he said that he'd brought me a Christmas surprise.When I unwrapped th=
e box and opened it wide,Starlight and rainbows streamed out from inside.So=
me letters whirled round and flew up to the skyAnd they spelled out a word =
that was 40 feet high.There first was an H, then an O, then a P,Then I saw =
it spelled HOPE when it added the E."Christmas magic" said Santa as he smil=
ed through his beard.Then suddenly all of the reindeer appeared.He jumped i=
nto his sleigh and he waved me good-bye,Then he soared o'er the rooftops an=
d into the sky.I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight"Get your vaccin=
es my friends, Merry Christmas, good-night".Then I went back to bed and a s=
weet Christmas dreamOf a world when we'd finished with Covid 19.=20
Joseph David=20

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<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font=
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/div><div>tom</div><div><br></div><div>----- Original Message -----<br>From=
: Warren Dietz &lt;[email-masked]&gt;<br>To: BJ8Healeys &lt;sbyers@e=
c.rr.com&gt;, [email-masked]<br>Sent: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:15:59 -05=
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1f497d;">This is so good, I just had to share it=E2=80=9D</span></p><p clas=
s=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style=3D"color: #1=
f497d;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f49=
7d;" data-mce-style=3D"color: #1f497d;">Yes it is! Thanks Steve.</span></p>=
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">Sent from <a href=
=3D"https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=3D550986" target=3D"_blank" dat=
a-mce-href=3D"https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=3D550986">Mail</a> fo=
r Windows</p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><div style=3D"mso-element: pa=
ra-border-div; border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0p=
t 0in 0in 0in;" data-mce-style=3D"mso-element: para-border-div; border: non=
e; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class=
=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"border: none; padding: 0in;" data-mce-style=3D"bord=
er: none; padding: 0in;"><b>From: </b><a href=3D"mailto:[email-masked]" t=
arget=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:[email-masked]">BJ8Healeys</a><b=
r><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, December 15, 2021 8:41 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href=
=3D"mailto:[email-masked]" target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"mailt=
o:[email-masked]">[email-masked]</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[He=
aleys] FW: A COVID Christmas Poem</p></div><p class=3D"MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p=
><div><div style=3D"border: none; border-top: solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt; padding:=
 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;" data-mce-style=3D"border: none; border-top: solid #B5C=
4DF 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=
=3D"color: #1f497d;" data-mce-style=3D"color: #1f497d;">From a friend in Ca=
nada.&nbsp; This is so good, I just had to share it.</span><span style=3D"f=
ont-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style=3D"=
font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"></span></p></div>=
</div><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family:=
 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family=
: 'Times New Roman',serif;">&nbsp;</span></p><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><s=
pan style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size:=
 12.0pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; font=
-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; fon=
t-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"></span></p></div><div><div><p class=3D"=
MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=
=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style=3D"font-size=
: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style=3D"font-siz=
e: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"></span></p></div><div><di=
v><div><div><blockquote style=3D"margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;" =
data-mce-style=3D"margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><div><blockquot=
e style=3D"margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;" data-mce-style=3D"marg=
in-top: 5.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><div><div><div><p class=3D"xmsonormal=
"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: b=
lack;" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">=
&nbsp;</span><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;=
" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">A Covid Christmas Poe=
m</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-fami=
ly: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'Ca=
libri',sans-serif; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal">=
<span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-st=
yle=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Twas the night before Christmas, b=
ut Covid was here,</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" s=
tyle=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5=
pt; color: black;">So we all had to stay extra cautious this year.</span></=
p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; =
color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Our mask=
s were all hung by the chimney with care</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal">=
<span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-st=
yle=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">In case Santa forgot his and neede=
d a spare.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"=
font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; colo=
r: black;">With Covid, we couldn't leave cookies or cake</span></p><p class=
=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">So we left Santa h=
and sanitizer to take.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-C=
A" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: =
13.5pt; color: black;">The children were sleeping, the brave little tots</s=
pan></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13=
.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Th=
e ones over 5 had just had their first shots,</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonor=
mal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-m=
ce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">And mom in her kerchief and m=
e in my cap</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D=
"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; col=
or: black;">Had just settled in for a long winter's nap.</span></p><p class=
=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">But we tossed and =
we turned all night in our beds</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lan=
g=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"fo=
nt-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">As visions of variants danced in our heads.=
</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size:=
 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"=
>Gamma and Delta and now Omicron</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span la=
ng=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"f=
ont-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">These Covid mutations that go on and on</s=
pan></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13=
.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">I =
thought to myself, "If this doesn't get better,</span></p><p class=3D"xmson=
ormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data=
-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">I'll soon be familiar with =
every Greek letter".</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA"=
 style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13=
.5pt; color: black;">Then just as I started to drift off and doze</span></p=
><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; c=
olor: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">A clatter=
 of noise from the front lawn arose.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><spa=
n lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=
=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">I leapt from my bed and ran straight =
down the stair</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=
=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; =
color: black;">I opened the door, and an old gent stood there.</span></p><p=
 class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; colo=
r: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">His N 95 mad=
e him look pretty weird</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-=
CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size:=
 13.5pt; color: black;">But I knew who he was by his red suit and beard.</s=
pan></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13=
.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">I =
kept six feet away but blurted out quick</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal">=
<span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-st=
yle=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">" What are you doing here, jolly S=
aint Nick?"</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D=
"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; col=
or: black;">Then I said, "Where's your presents, your reindeer and sleigh ?=
</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size:=
 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"=
>Don't you know that tomorrow will be Christmas Day? ".</span></p><p class=
=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">And Santa stood th=
ere looking sad in the snow</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D=
"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-s=
ize: 13.5pt; color: black;">As he started to tell me a long tale of woe.</s=
pan></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13=
.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">He=
 said he'd been stuck at the North Pole alone</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonor=
mal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-m=
ce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">All his white collar elves ha=
d been working from home,</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"E=
N-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-siz=
e: 13.5pt; color: black;">And most of the others said "Santa, don't hire us=
!</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size=
: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;=
">We can live off the CERB now, thanks to the virus".</span></p><p class=3D=
"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;=
" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Those left in the toy=
shop had little to do.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-C=
A" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: =
13.5pt; color: black;">With supply chain disruptions, they could make nothi=
ng new.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"fon=
t-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: =
black;">And as for the reindeer, they'd all gone away.</span></p><p class=
=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">None of them left =
to pull on his sleigh.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-C=
A" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: =
13.5pt; color: black;">He said Dasher and Dancer were in quarantine,</span>=
</p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt=
; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Prance=
r and Vixen refused the vaccine,</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span la=
ng=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"f=
ont-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Comet and Cupid were in ICU,</span></p><p =
class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color=
: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">So were Donne=
r and Blitzen, they may not pull through.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"=
><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-s=
tyle=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">And Rudolph's career can't be res=
urrected.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"f=
ont-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color=
: black;">With his shiny red nose, they all think he's infected.</span></p>=
<p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; co=
lor: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Even with =
his old sleigh, Santa couldn't go far.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><s=
pan lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-styl=
e=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Every border to cross needs a new PC=
R.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-siz=
e: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black=
;">Santa sighed as he told me how nice it would be</span></p><p class=3D"xm=
sonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" d=
ata-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">If children could once a=
gain sit on his knee.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA=
" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 1=
3.5pt; color: black;">He couldn't care less if they're naughty or nice</spa=
n></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5=
pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">But =
they'd have to show proof that they'd had their shot twice.</span></p><p cl=
ass=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: =
black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">But then the ol=
d twinkle returned to his eyes.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lan=
g=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"fo=
nt-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">And he said that he'd brought me a Christma=
s surprise.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D=
"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; col=
or: black;">When I unwrapped the box and opened it wide,</span></p><p class=
=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Starlight and rain=
bows streamed out from inside.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=
=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"fon=
t-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Some letters whirled round and flew up to th=
e sky</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-=
size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bl=
ack;">And they spelled out a word that was 40 feet high.</span></p><p class=
=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">There first was an=
 H, then an O, then a P,</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN=
-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size=
: 13.5pt; color: black;">Then I saw it spelled HOPE when it added the E.</s=
pan></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13=
.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">"C=
hristmas magic" said Santa as he smiled through his beard.</span></p><p cla=
ss=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: b=
lack;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Then suddenly al=
l of the reindeer appeared.</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D=
"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-s=
ize: 13.5pt; color: black;">He jumped into his sleigh and he waved me good-=
bye,</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-s=
ize: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;">Then he soared o'er the rooftops and into the sky.</span></p><p class=
=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: bla=
ck;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">I heard him exclai=
m as he drove out of sight</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"=
EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-si=
ze: 13.5pt; color: black;">"Get your vaccines my friends, Merry Christmas, =
good-night".</span></p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=
=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; =
color: black;">Then I went back to bed and a sweet Christmas dream</span></=
p><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; =
font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-si=
ze: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">Of a world wh=
en we'd finished with Covid 19.</span></p><div><p class=3D"xmsonormal"><spa=
n lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;"=
 data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;">&nbsp;=
</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></=
div></div></div></div><p class=3D"xmsonormal" style=3D"mso-margin-top-alt: =
0in; margin-right: 1.0in; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in;" data-m=
ce-style=3D"mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; margin-right: 1.0in; margin-bottom: 5.=
0pt; margin-left: 1.0in;"><span lang=3D"EN-CA" style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; =
color: black;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"><br>Jose=
ph David</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt;=
 font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt=
; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><br></=
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