Twas the eve before Christmas
Lit candles cos it was cold
Cleaned the room a few days ago
Washed out dust and mould
Its quiet around here
Just the plumbing a-whirring
Nobody in the corridor
No student a-stirring
Another day in December
Named Christmas so seeming
Apparently celebrated widely here
but not without meaning
The city awaited
The white-driven snow
All that blanketed Stockholm
Was frost, freeze and thaw
Frenzied shoppers rushing
On Drottninggatan; Vallingby
bumping each other like pinballs
Siau-wei, like for free
So sitting here in the room
Overlooking the city
The lights wink back at me
Saying a calm and peaceful
Merry Christmas Everybody!
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