Trial Balloon: January 2, 2009 Archive

Jan Too

Posted at 5:10 AM on January 2, 2009 by Dale Connelly (35 Comments)

Please forgive me, but some bleak days there's not much to say, and nothing to offer but an SLP (Stupid Little Poem).

The months and their dates have an order that's clear.
And it matters a lot where they come in the year.
As prestigious addresses are typically reckoned
The saddest of all: January the second.

Not by its own failure is this date the worst
It just suffers by being too close to the First.
For Jan One is a star. It's the tops. It's the Queen.
While Jan Two is too common. And dull. A plebian.

At the first of the First come skyrockets galore.
And sports carry on through the day.
By the second the revelers have nothing more
to offer, and nothing to say.

Their beginnings begun, their clean slates all besmirched.
The exotic birds all have been plucked and re-perched.
The hors d'oeuvres and the cookies now given to Rover.
The host and the hostess no longer hung over.

But one more hurrah for the sad overlooked
Overshadowed and sometimes maligned
Insignificant dates that occur nonetheless,
Though they're never foremost in our mind.

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