Santa turned thirty last week

Amongst the far too many

mundane headlines this week,

the ones about one war or another

and how the world is hurtling towards

extinction in this way or that and of

course the thought that there is

only so much time left, so precious few

moments

the one that caught my attention was

how Santa turned thirty last week

and the absurdity of that thought

until I realized the date on the scroll

I was reading was 6,000 BC and my

cave man slippers needed fresh skins

before the first snow flakes begin

to fall and more of my toes get really

cold, turn black, and fall off