Fw: Politically Correct Song

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> Subject: A " Politically Correct " Song of the Season

> >

> > On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my

> > Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave

> > to me:

> >

> > TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,

> >

> > ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of

members

> > in good standing of the American Federation of Musicians as called for

in

> > their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a

note),

> >

> > TEN melanin deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal

> > ruling class system leaping,

> >

> > NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression

> >

> > EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products

> > from enslaved Bovine-Americans,

> >

> > SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,

> >

> > SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal products,

> >

> > FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic

> > incarceration,

> >

> > (NOTE: after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw

> > red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridge

> > have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further

Animal-American

> > enslavement, the remaining gift package has had to be revised.)

> >

> > FOUR hours of recorded whale songs,

> >

> > THREE deconstructionist poets

> >

> > TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses

> > and...

> >

> > ONE Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.

> >

> > Merry Christmas Happy Chanukah. Good Kwanzaa. Blessed Yule. Oh, heck!

> > Happy Holidays!!!! (unless otherwise prohibited by law) *

> >

> > *Unless, of course, you are suffering from Seasonally Affected Disorder

> > (SAD). If this be the case, please substitute this gratuitous call for

> > celebration with the suggestion that you have a thoroughly adequate

day.