A Christmas Story--By James Dean Chase--United States

A Christmas Story

Three blankets, threadbare and thin,

were still some service to him

- the frail old man in the box

of wood and cardboard - his home

amongst rats and alley cats.

A coffee can full of wax,

melting with a sooty flame,

kept the freeze off his fingers

as he ate his trash bin prize

of discarded pizza crusts.

He toasted his good fortune

with a swig of soured juice,

then rested his weary head

on a bubble wrap pillow

as sirens sang lullabies....

James Dean Chase is a Mixed Anglo/Native American Indian writer, poet and artist, born and raised in Texas. He has traveled "the seven seas", and spent six years in the American Navy. James has been writing since the age of 5. Unfortunately, all of his writings before age 16 are lost. Many of his articles, columns, poetry and short stories have been published.