Lit Up | Poetry

My Heavily Revised (and Redacted) Grownup Christmas List

Don’t read this if you are easily offended.

Crystal Jackson

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Hohoho and holidays
With all their anxious feelings
Just pay my bills and eat the rich
And smash the whole glass ceiling

Equal rights and equal pay
Keep laws out of my vagina
Shop cruelty-free and local
Skip the bullsh*t made in China

Get shelter pets adopted
Fill up food banks with donations
F*ck the patriarchy
And capitalism’s machinations

Fill empty, waiting houses
With unhoused people who are cold
Care beyond the fetus
Care for the children and the old

Calm a nervous system
Fill an avoidant’s heart with love
Here’s to free utilities
And warm hats and socks and gloves

Protect the children everywhere
From the river to the sea
And let the Epstein documents
Take down this regime with glee