"Millbrook, Dutchess County?" exclaims the llama. "Are you kidding me? No wonder those kids are on the train to or from New York all the time."
"I don't know what you are talking about, animal", I say.
"Not here. He is not here!"
Anthony is the unhappiest elf I have ever seen.
"When you came to Santa's workshop and had your good times with us elves K'eyush followed you after a while searching in the halls and tunnels under the vanishing ice of the North Pole. But he also followed and found you, Joe Darque, the man in black, the self-called Dark Eater. And when he met Santa Claus, my boss, in his dressing room, he overpowered and kidnapped him. We only found Santa's big black boots and the rest of some sticky tape Darque must have used to gag him."
"Santa is your boss?" the llama asks. "Wow, so you are a Christmas Elf? One of Santa's little helpers?"
"Really, animal?" I ask. "Stating the obvious as always, aren't you?"
BING!
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"Bromford Dock"
They disembarked in '45
And no one spoke and no one smiled
There were too many spaces in the line
Gathered at the cenotaph
All agreed with hand on heart
To sheath the sacrificial knives
(Thats right)
But now
She stands upon Bromford dock
With her handkerchief
And her summer frock
Clings to her wet body in the rain
In quiet desperation knuckles
White upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again
Still the dark stain spreads between
Their shoulder blades
A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
When the fight was over
We spent what they had made
But in the bottom of our hearts
We felt the final cut
They disembarked in '45
And no one spoke and no one smiled
There were too many spaces in the line
Gathered at the cenotaph
All agreed with hand on heart
To sheath the sacrificial knives
(Thats right)
But now
She stands upon Bromford dock
With her handkerchief
And her summer frock
Clings to her wet body in the rain
In quiet desperation knuckles
White upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again
Still the dark stain spreads between
Their shoulder blades
A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
When the fight was over
We spent what they had made
But in the bottom of our hearts
We felt the final cut
Southhampton⛴️π₯️π’π€⛵
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