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At The Desk Clerk's Afternoon Break
Right now we do not have a vacancy,
although one may turn up eventually.
We made more money this month than all season.
The government's finances are the reason
(I think they are bankrupt or soon will be;
and saying so, I hope, does not mean treason).
Too busy I have been to take a breath:
such workloads likely lead to early death.
Frankly, the easy part of any day
is turning such late-coming folks away.
Those adolescents, down from Nazareth,
will find no rooms in all of Bethlehem,
and nothing for them in Jerusalem.
Only a miracle can, now, help them.
