christmas 07

The house is warm and I sit with my parents and unwrap presents and smile and laugh and eat chocolate chip cookies still warm from the oven but I
Don’t tell them about her

And she sits 200 miles away with her parents and unwraps an iPod and laughs and rubs her belly and doesn’t tell them about
The operation I have set up

And my friends are spread out across the country and
Danny leaves out his grades and Jessica leaves out her boyfriend and Alex leaves out the blow jobs and the cheating and Jason leaves out what he had done that dark, rainy, drunk night and why
His car has blood under the hood
Because, well
We all have secrets right?
It’s important to be happy on Christmas

And our parents?
They sit and laugh
And confuse children with angels