I have finished with Little Gidding, but the twelve days of Christmas still has six more. So, a brief meditation on The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, one of Eliot's late works.
There are several attitudes towards Christmas,
Some of which we may disregard:
The social, the torpid, the patently commercial,
The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight),
And the childish - which is not that of the child
Christmas has been captured
Seized at sea by a fleet of container ships
Diverted to the Port of LA/Long Beach
Held hostage in an abandoned El Centro warehouse
One wrist chained to a faded yellow forklift
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