A build-up of contacts: a culling is due.
This Christmas card habit? It’s time to review
the who, what and why of the names on the list,
blue pencil of Judgement clenched tight in my fist.
Those Disney-style stickers Anne favours – oh no!
An infantile habit so she’ll have to go.
Sue uses a circle (no dot) on each ‘i’.
Then Jane’s turquoise ink! My blood pressure’s sky-high.
Bill’s a golfing fanatic, a one-subject bore
and Sid hates the Greens, while the Smithsons deplore
all art post-Pre-Raphaelite: their names have gone.
It’s getting so easy; I’ll go on and on.
John’s so little-Englander, stuck in a trough.
Charles voted Brexit so, obviously, off.
I’ve now cut a swathe. Has the list shrunk too small?
There’s suddenly no one to write to at all.