They say the holidays are a time of depression

I am always one to pimp the scene at Words Without Borders, partially for self-promoting reasons, but this month I discovered something quite amazing: go to the main page www.wordswithoutborders.org and look at the features from top to, oh, eight or nine entries down. The story title is listed first, then the author and translator info with a quick summation of the story/poem. After that is the blurb, provided in italics. Read the blubs one after another. Cut and paste them in a Word doc and you’ll have the most depressing poem ever written.