For you and I

Elite gala once,

communal indulgence now

Christmas is for all.

Nonfiction

Relates her story

as the audience resounds

fiction it assumes.

On duty

Unknown and unseen

is a silent spectator,

the well-trained sniper.

Suppose we juxtapose

Vacancies with on-the-job training:
for the self-starters
the go getters
dreamers and doers.

Theoretical certification necessary.

Disappointment

His heart was scalding,

a burn as second-degree,

where the daughter stomped.