After the holiday
of gratitude and giving thanks
for one's blessings
comes the joyous season
of You're-Not-Welcome-Take-Backs
(which may or may not
be a separate and distinct holiday
from that of hurling invective
at beloved
but politically-inflexible relatives)
where civil liberties
that went un-exercised
throughout the year
can be flaunted
as though
they were going out of style.
Because one never knows.
(And yes
it's okay to do
even if all the hipsters
are doing it too.)
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
