-the Christmas gift-exchange tradition debunked- 

what if the three Magi didn’t show up,

misguidedly tracking Sirius Major instead?––

or Swamp Gas.

suppose one of the wise-guys decided to take a shortcut
camel-trotting into a gang of pesky, old testament Amalekites?

and what if this was the Magi holding the myrrh, and the other two guys                

fell prey to reasoning they somehow needed the myrrh.

suppose, while waiting for the myrrh, the two remaining Magi                        

came to exhaust their food stores,

causing their camels to make revolt against them.

sure, the child might have been born nonetheless,

justifying interior evergreens to be trimmed;
to be pop-corned, tinseled and bulbed, but
that would have been the extent of it.
hence, the Christmas gift-exchange tradition is debunked.

but wait...“pop-corned, tinseled and bulbed”?

now, that has a jaunty, "happy holidays" lilt to it,––
wouldn't you agree?

Season's Greetings! / The Mezzotesta Family.