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New Years Resolutions

Never a dull moment at this time of year

Everyone drunkenly in good cheer

Waiting for the clock to strike midnight

 

Yesterdays they reminisce to their own delight

Eventually they decide what they want to change

Announcing to anyone who will listen in hearing range

Rich and poor - seems to matter not!

Somehow they all have something to stop.

 

Resolving to stop smoking or eating so much

Entertaining ideas of working out on lunch.

Sounding aloud their shortcomings that come to mind

Only to let themselves down as the next day they find

Leftover booze and confetti from the night before

Under the tables, on the carpet, by the door

Torn between keeping a resolution made in haste

Intentionally lighting that next cigarette or to taste

Offensively delicious chocolate, chocholate chip ice cream

Never realizing their resolutions through the debris unseen.

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