Twas the week before Christmas, and north, east and south
The credit card limits had all but run out
The computer had googled the world around
There wasn't a gidget or gadget that hadn't been found
But while this holiday season hasn't run out of steam
Most were setting their sights on the end of eighteen
A challenging year, one with ups and with downs
And too many twists, things usually not to be found
It started out weird, with the President of course
Breaking norms left and right, always done with brute force
January barely had started, when a low point was hit
He called countries "holes," the kind that rhymes with pit
The palace intrigue continued, Pruitt finally got burned
Manafort and Cohen told the feds what they learned
Rex was booted from State, and soon there was more
Sessions got canned, Kelly's eying the door
If two stories were big with implications for all
It was the Supreme Court fight, elections in the fall.
Wherever you went conversions turned to fights,
There was no chilling out on the left and the right
Now, as much as it seems that DC is the center
Other things as well set the tone and the tenor
Some good and some bad, yes, it's always that way
Eighteen was no different, so much to convey
In every arena of life there was a reckoning on guys
The story's not new, but it reached to new highs
A movement that started so small continued to swell
No pun is intended though it's not hard to sell
Moonves got booted, Harvey got nailed
Batali was cooked, Cosby headed to jail
It's surely not over, there's more on the way
#MeToo's hardly finished, the list grows by the day
Elsewhere too many shootings, no corner safe from the pain
Doesn't matter location, the story's the same
Parkland and Benton and Thousand Oaks too
No shortage of grief, but no answer simple to do
In football, the Eagles, in baseball the Sox
Not white, sorry Chicago, the Red checked that box.
Golden State kicked Lebron, and in dog news to go
The Kennel picked a Bichon, Flynn wins Best in Show
Away from these shores there was news but of course
The Brits headed for Brexit, a messy divorce
No one had the answer, on just one thing they all cared
Meghan and Harry got married, it was a princess affair
As always each year brings some tears and farewells
Of people who lived their lives bold and well
Paul Allen, John McCain, Stan Lee just a few
Philip Roth and Kate Spade are just some known to you
Tom Wolfe, Billy Graham, no longer here
George HW Bush left late in the year
Anthony Bourdain and Jerry Van Dyke
Aretha, Steven Hawking, just some we all liked
So much more has happened, there's not enough space
To review all the happenings in this one small space
Still it's good to look back, it helps us remind
As we turn to look forward and leave this one behind
So let me end this saying to all that look here
Many thanks for reading this space through the year
Merry, Happy, Joyous, and all that that means
Best wishes for the holiday, and a happy '19.
-END-
Marc Wollin of Bedford offers his apologies to Clement Moore.
His column appears regularly in The Record-Review, The Scarsdale Inquirer and online at http://www.glancingaskance.blogspot.com/, as well as via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
The credit card limits had all but run out
The computer had googled the world around
There wasn't a gidget or gadget that hadn't been found
But while this holiday season hasn't run out of steam
Most were setting their sights on the end of eighteen
A challenging year, one with ups and with downs
And too many twists, things usually not to be found
It started out weird, with the President of course
Breaking norms left and right, always done with brute force
January barely had started, when a low point was hit
He called countries "holes," the kind that rhymes with pit
The palace intrigue continued, Pruitt finally got burned
Manafort and Cohen told the feds what they learned
Rex was booted from State, and soon there was more
Sessions got canned, Kelly's eying the door
If two stories were big with implications for all
It was the Supreme Court fight, elections in the fall.
Wherever you went conversions turned to fights,
There was no chilling out on the left and the right
Now, as much as it seems that DC is the center
Other things as well set the tone and the tenor
Some good and some bad, yes, it's always that way
Eighteen was no different, so much to convey
In every arena of life there was a reckoning on guys
The story's not new, but it reached to new highs
A movement that started so small continued to swell
No pun is intended though it's not hard to sell
Moonves got booted, Harvey got nailed
Batali was cooked, Cosby headed to jail
It's surely not over, there's more on the way
#MeToo's hardly finished, the list grows by the day
Elsewhere too many shootings, no corner safe from the pain
Doesn't matter location, the story's the same
Parkland and Benton and Thousand Oaks too
No shortage of grief, but no answer simple to do
In football, the Eagles, in baseball the Sox
Not white, sorry Chicago, the Red checked that box.
Golden State kicked Lebron, and in dog news to go
The Kennel picked a Bichon, Flynn wins Best in Show
Away from these shores there was news but of course
The Brits headed for Brexit, a messy divorce
No one had the answer, on just one thing they all cared
Meghan and Harry got married, it was a princess affair
As always each year brings some tears and farewells
Of people who lived their lives bold and well
Paul Allen, John McCain, Stan Lee just a few
Philip Roth and Kate Spade are just some known to you
Tom Wolfe, Billy Graham, no longer here
George HW Bush left late in the year
Anthony Bourdain and Jerry Van Dyke
Aretha, Steven Hawking, just some we all liked
So much more has happened, there's not enough space
To review all the happenings in this one small space
Still it's good to look back, it helps us remind
As we turn to look forward and leave this one behind
So let me end this saying to all that look here
Many thanks for reading this space through the year
Merry, Happy, Joyous, and all that that means
Best wishes for the holiday, and a happy '19.
-END-
Marc Wollin of Bedford offers his apologies to Clement Moore.
His column appears regularly in The Record-Review, The Scarsdale Inquirer and online at http://www.glancingaskance.blogspot.com/, as well as via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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