An Unwanted Christmas Present - 5th Day of Christmas
From Jack T. Scully’s “An Unwanted Christmas Present,” published in Mianus Village
The hockey puck
hit Petey
between the eyes,
dropping the poor boy
like a shot duck.
Later at the midnight
candlelight service,
I got a good look
at Petey’s twin shiners,
which his mother
told everyone
was not the kind
of Christmas present
she had expected
from her son.