Santa Claus Lives Down Your Street
BRADLEY MASON HAMLIN
I told her
the unicorns she dreams of
exist
mermaids, too
that crazy Santa Claus
and the Easter Bunny
all genuine
those magical creatures
survive
in this reality, I told her
or you wouldn’t form pictures
inside your mind
when I say
unicorn
mermaid
Santa Claus
or Easter Bunny
obviously
they exist in some form
we know who they are but
sometimes forget,
maybe not enough room inside
our heads
for mystic friends
or monsters
fairies, elves, and wild ones
and perhaps
that’s why
so many men grow mean
unable
to see the hidden ghosts
partying inside the forest
or why
people believe a baloney
sandwich
with mayonnaise
is real food.
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Bradley Mason Hamlin is an American writer and the creator of Secret Society Comics. He is an alumni of the University of California, where poet Gary Snyder dubbed Hamlin “The Road Warrior of Poetry!” Born in Los Angeles, Hamlin currently lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, Nicky Christine, and their tribe of suburban children & wild cats. Secret Society Origins and his other books are available from Black Shark Press
[photo of Father Christmas by Geoff Charles, in public domain courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales]
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