Christmas Poem

there is a man
on a street corner
with a sign
that reads
“Jesus is the Reason
for the Season”

my wife suggests
we take up
the opposite corner
holding a diagram
of a tilted earth

Benjamin Dean lives in northern Colorado. He meditates, writes short poems, and publishes them online at www.short-zen-poems.com and www.socialpoems-politicalpoems.info. Benjamin has been writing poetry for over thirty years.