“I see a nutcracker in a store window display
and want to throw the biggest rock at it I can find.
I want to shatter the glass with my bare knuckles,
to bleed all over the happiness.
I want to stuff tinsel in the mouth of the nutcracker, to watch him destroy everything
that is supposed to bring cheer.
I want this whole town to stop celebrating if I can’t have you here.”
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