Santa with a Bloody Knife

Santa with a Bloody Knife No one knows when we have entered the age of statuesque expressionism--- for blood soaked battle ground, primitive festivity or abstract slang of arts . . . sometimes the most powerful comes from the under represented, the underdogs who are hung like neon lights---the celebration of commercial carnivals. At every shopping mall Santa is dressed to kill. Every kid cries to sit on his lap, touch his white plastic beard while tiresome mothers secretly guard their over-drawn Debit. Santa promises to bring whatever the little one wants--- Teddy bears, trains and guns . . . The new common-ancestor with bags of useless gadgets for the dye-gone, X-generation. We have seen everything--- It is cool to be religious and money wise. The most terrible fate is to be white and poor at the same time! The father, who was a kid once sitting with the laid-off Santa long ago, swears to cut the crap. Can no longer stand the nausea when seeing millions of Barbies showing boobs and a perfect butt! “But who makes the bucks? The fake crap makes me sick!” The father, a former art student now a middle-aged banker, grunts. He pulls up sleeves to make his own Santa: A murder with a perverse grin behind the snow-white hair cutting the throat of a blond Barbie with spiky nipples and whorish blue eyes . . . The best portrait of another eventful year from a fed-up middle-class tax-payer. + Z.Z. Dec. 2005

影雲 Love it!!! Original, ironical, and thought-provoking!!! Santa - - - commercialized Digitized, un-fairytaled … Dream-breaker A merciless robber with a smiling face … What is the invisible hand behind all of these? . . . thanks for the eye-opening poem!!! 知凡: 人們在做很多事情的時候，常常不問為什麽要這樣做。。。跟隨大溜。。。 我在商場裏看到排著隊和“Santa”照相的人群也覺得分外傻氣。。。為什麽要這樣？。。。 “...The fake crap makes me sick!” 商業不僅利用了Santa，還利用著人性的弱點，影響著人們的“審美”，使生活越來越沒有生活質量，“...seeing millions of Barbies/showing boobs and a perfect butt!”.....Santa帶給人的是些無用的小玩意兒，“The new common-ancestor/with bags of useless gadgets/for the dye-gone, X-generation.”.....漸漸地很多人也養成了小玩意兒式的品味。。。 不知不覺，“No one knows when/we have entered the age/of statuesque expressionism---...”。。。 很喜歡詩中的深刻的思考，“We have seen everything---”。。。 最後一幅肖像畫，出乎意料的諷刺，令人深思。。。 喚醒，喚醒麻木。。。 ltg: thanks! this poem was actually inspired by a real event --- in the city where i live, someone made a Santa holding a blood-dripping knife with Barbie doll on his side, her throat was cut open.... :) i thought that guy who made it is very brave in a middle-class neighborhood... Peace!