Large Fierce Mammal

On the Long Winter’s Night of 29 December 2017 I proclaimed this morale booster.

The Fire Without and the Fire Within

By LFM

It’s only just started, but coming to pass
Is a Winter as cold as a well digger’s ass.
Yet it’s still not extreme if the truth’s to be told,
For it used to be worse, just go ask someone old.

Its fury brings failures of power and phone,
Where the Internet’s out and you’re sitting alone,
And there’s nowhere to hide, it will find where you are —
No Pornhub for you while you’re phoning the Czar!

Now pull up your zipper and get off your ass!
Be true to your breeding, each bucko and lass!
From heritage wrought by those too tough to die,
Now stiffen your back and put fire in your eye!

For life’s made of stories, not fretting and yelling,
So let’s light some candles and get to the telling!
Break out the rum, toast the brass monkey balls
We festooned our tree with while decking the halls!

Enough of laments and your impotent rage.
Remember your kin of the glacial age!
With stone tools and fire, both without AND within,
They hunted the Mammoth while wearing its skin.

Even as I find myself smug in the presence of my Exquisite Wife, three delightful Sons, and loyal Canine retainers, I am abundantly aware that not all in life is guaranteed. Whatever your situation, keep your chin up Goode Reader as we call upon Abba to sing us out.

Happy New Year, and do not go gentle.