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This was written for the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. The art is by – well it’s obvious isn’t it?

SAY IT ISN’T SO, NORM!

Santa’s looking mighty jolly.
But why are his eyebrows black,
while it appears all other hair
upon his face lacks black?

Could it be the strain of hefting
that sack upon his back
has somehow turned most hair to white,
but left his eyebrows black?

Perhaps it is the stress he feels
when nerves begin to crack.
Or maybe elfish mischievousness
painted his eyebrows black?

One thing I had not thought about,
which takes a different tack:
could beard and mustache be glued on
to face with eyebrows black?

Could it be this Rockwell Santa
is really just a hack,
pretending to be Santa Claus
in faux white and real black?

Oh woe to us big children who
believe Rockwell paints fact!
To think he’d render us a fake
raises my eyebrows, …brown!

Copyright December 24th 2012 RGD
Inspired by the Norman Rockwell painting “Deck The Halls”