Merry and Happy

The local diner was playing a deep track from New Kids on the Block:

A tone-deaf boy band plays

while a waitress enjingles

and detangles decorations

making the song marginally less funky but

everything more Christmas

—hritz

Sweetwaters, snow melt, and dark floor tiles:

First serious snowfall—

salted footsteps provide

a briny traffic flow analysis:

the need for more doormats

and longer attention spans.

—hritz

And a clever dad:

a soft growl

gentle stomps

a T-rex prowls the library

he wears a blue checked shirt

and a knit hat

his prey

a shoeless toddler

who consistently out-turns him

while giggling

—hritz