12 days of Christmas (Santa Cruz style)

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS.... SANTA CRUZ STYLE...


On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival,
my Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship
gave to me:


TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual
drumming,


ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of
members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for
in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a
note),


TEN melanin deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal
ruling class system leaping,


NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,


EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing
milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Americans,


SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,


SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal
products,


FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic
incarceration,


(NOTE after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to
throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and
partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid
further Animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package has
been revised.)


FOUR hours of recorded whale songs


THREE deconstructionist poets


TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree
carcasses and...


ONE Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.