The Large Jolly Man
By Kamden Russell
This man’s name is jolly Santa Claus.
He has a very large beer belly.
On the cookies this massive man gnaws.
I’ve always wondered, “Is he smelly?”
He puts the presents under your tree
then sneaks out like a thief in the night.
Up the chimney he goes, yelling “Weee!”
If you’re bad, he’ll give you coal all right!
Kamden Russell was a student in Gerrit Hansen’s Seventh Grade English Class in 2023. This poem is in the “Christmas/W” section of The Poetry Inklet, the book Gerrit and his students created.
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