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# Manifesto
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/manifesto/
- Published: 2025-12-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Here's my list of Christmas wishes: Robot, you will do the dishes, and while I remain a bard do some work on the backyard:
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Here's my list of Christmas wishes:  
Robot, you will do the dishes,  
and while I remain a bard  
do some work on the backyard:

Leaves need blowing, overflowing  
grass obscured, no longer showing  
Logs need splitting, time permitting,  
while I write my poems, sitting.

Also, too late for the turkey,  
long ago reduced to jerky  
but the Christmas table ham  
cooked, while I read Sam I am

would be perfect. Inspiration,  
two-thirds, they say, perspiration,  
I'm concerned, however clever,  
Robot won't help the endeavor,

and I might be forced to labor,  
or worse yet, to greet a neighbor.  
Compare selfies, sing, and carol,  
ugly sweater, my apparel…

Unacceptable, I tell you.  
So dear Robot, I compel you,  
yes, dear Robot, set me free.

Too bad, Robot, you are me.

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