Goodbye Tree, Goodbye Lights, Goodbye Christmas—Until Next Year
COMEDOWN
It’s Jan. 3. Your Christmas tree may be coming down, it’s back to work for many, and a farewell to that strange and necessary time of year of joy, pleasure, and magic.
Must it end like this? Me and my super wrestling my Christmas tree, my beautiful Christmas tree, into a large plastic condom, ready for disposal? “It won’t fit,” he says, as the lower branches struggle free of their imminent tomb.