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'word-wrap:break-word'><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal>=E2=
=80=9C<span style=3D'color:#1F497D'>This is so good, I just had to share it=
=E2=80=9D<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'color:#1=
F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'colo=
r:#1F497D'>Yes it is! Thanks Steve.</span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p>&nb=
sp;</o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Sent from <a href=3D"https://go.microsoft=
.com/fwlink/?LinkId=3D550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=3DMsoNormal>=
<o:p> </o:p></p><div style=3D'mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;=
border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=3DMsoNor=
mal style=3D'border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href=3D"mailto:sbyers=
@ec.rr.com">BJ8Healeys</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, December 15, 2021 8:4=
1 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href=3D"mailto:healeys@autox.team.net";>healeys@autox.=
team.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Healeys] FW: A COVID Christmas Poem</p></d=
iv><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style=3D'border:none=
;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=3DMsoNo=
rmal><span style=3D'color:#1F497D'>From a friend in Canada. This is s=
o good, I just had to share it.</span><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-=
family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=
=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",=
serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D=
'font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt=
;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div=
><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </=
span><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><=
o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><blockquote style=3D'margin-=
top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><blockquote style=3D'margin-top:5.0pt;m=
argin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA=
style=3D'font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span =
lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A Covid Christmas Poem<=
/span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-family:"Ca=
libri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span=
lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Twas the night before =
Christmas, but Covid was here,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=
=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>So we all had to stay extra=
cautious this year.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA sty=
le=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Our masks were all hung by the chimney =
with care</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-=
size:13.5pt;color:black'>In case Santa forgot his and needed a spare.</span=
></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;col=
or:black'>With Covid, we couldn't leave cookies or cake</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>So =
we left Santa hand sanitizer to take.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span=
lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The children were slee=
ping, the brave little tots</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN=
-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The ones over 5 had just had the=
ir first shots,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D=
'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And mom in her kerchief and me in my cap</sp=
an></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;c=
olor:black'>Had just settled in for a long winter's nap.</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>But=
we tossed and we turned all night in our beds</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonor=
mal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>As visions of=
variants danced in our heads.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=
=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Gamma and Delta and now Omi=
cron</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:=
13.5pt;color:black'>These Covid mutations that go on and on</span></p><p cl=
ass=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>=
I thought to myself, "If this doesn't get better,</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I'l=
l soon be familiar with every Greek letter".</span></p><p class=3Dxmso=
normal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then just =
as I started to drift off and doze</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span la=
ng=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A clatter of noise from t=
he front lawn arose.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA sty=
le=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I leapt from my bed and ran straight do=
wn the stair</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'fo=
nt-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I opened the door, and an old gent stood there.=
</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5=
pt;color:black'>His N 95 made him look pretty weird</span></p><p class=3Dxm=
sonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>But I kn=
ew who he was by his red suit and beard.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><s=
pan lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I kept six feet awa=
y but blurted out quick</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA =
style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>" What are you doing here, joll=
y Saint Nick?"</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA styl=
e=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then I said, "Where's your presents=
, your reindeer and sleigh ?</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DE=
N-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Don't you know that tomorrow wi=
ll be Christmas Day? ".</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DE=
N-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And Santa stood there looking s=
ad in the snow</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'=
font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>As he started to tell me a long tale of woe.<=
/span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5p=
t;color:black'>He said he'd been stuck at the North Pole alone</span></p><p=
class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:blac=
k'>All his white collar elves had been working from home,</span></p><p clas=
s=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>An=
d most of the others said "Santa, don't hire us!</span></p><p class=3D=
xmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>We can=
live off the CERB now, thanks to the virus".</span></p><p class=3Dxms=
onormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Those lef=
t in the toyshop had little to do.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span la=
ng=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>With supply chain disrupt=
ions, they could make nothing new.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span la=
ng=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And as for the reindeer, =
they'd all gone away.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA st=
yle=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>None of them left to pull on his sleig=
h.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13=
.5pt;color:black'>He said Dasher and Dancer were in quarantine,</span></p><=
p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bla=
ck'>Prancer and Vixen refused the vaccine,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal>=
<span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Comet and Cupid w=
ere in ICU,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'fon=
t-size:13.5pt;color:black'>So were Donner and Blitzen, they may not pull th=
rough.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-siz=
e:13.5pt;color:black'>And Rudolph's career can't be resurrected.</span></p>=
<p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bl=
ack'>With his shiny red nose, they all think he's infected.</span></p><p cl=
ass=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>=
Even with his old sleigh, Santa couldn't go far.</span></p><p class=3Dxmson=
ormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Every borde=
r to cross needs a new PCR.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN=
-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Santa sighed as he told me how n=
ice it would be</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D=
'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>If children could once again sit on his knee=
.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.=
5pt;color:black'>He couldn't care less if they're naughty or nice</span></p=
><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:b=
lack'>But they'd have to show proof that they'd had their shot twice.</span=
></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;col=
or:black'>But then the old twinkle returned to his eyes.</span></p><p class=
=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And=
he said that he'd brought me a Christmas surprise.</span></p><p class=3Dxm=
sonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>When I u=
nwrapped the box and opened it wide,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span =
lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Starlight and rainbows =
streamed out from inside.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-C=
A style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Some letters whirled round and fle=
w up to the sky</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D=
'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And they spelled out a word that was 40 feet=
high.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-siz=
e:13.5pt;color:black'>There first was an H, then an O, then a P,</span></p>=
<p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bl=
ack'>Then I saw it spelled HOPE when it added the E.</span></p><p class=3Dx=
msonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>"C=
hristmas magic" said Santa as he smiled through his beard.</span></p><=
p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:bla=
ck'>Then suddenly all of the reindeer appeared.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsono=
rmal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>He jumped in=
to his sleigh and he waved me good-bye,</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><sp=
an lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then he soared o'er =
the rooftops and into the sky.</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=
=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I heard him exclaim as he d=
rove out of sight</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA style=
=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>"Get your vaccines my friends, Merry=
Christmas, good-night".</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3D=
EN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Then I went back to bed and a =
sweet Christmas dream</span></p><p class=3Dxmsonormal><span lang=3DEN-CA st=
yle=3D'font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Of a =
world when we'd finished with Covid 19.</span></p><div><p class=3Dxmsonorma=
l><span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'=
> </span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><=
/div></div></div></div></div><p class=3Dxmsonormal style=3D'mso-margin-top-=
alt:0in;margin-right:1.0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><span lan=
g=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><br>Joseph David</span></p=
><p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times Ne=
w Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>=
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