The bursting of crackers all day
seem to be a noisy affair in a way
deafening the ears all through
frightening the babies greatly in a rue
disturbing the elderly to a fright
creating an unpleasantness straight
with fumes and smoke rising up high
polluting the environment to a die
what do they actually do?
just a blare and a blast
sometimes with sparkles to last
other times a rise and fall
with a drastic haul
pulling the sky down beneath
raising the earth up in a sheath
with incidents of fatal injury
burns to a great degree
Well ! there be an atom of thrill
keeping us in a happy fill
but nothing beyond that
a wasteful expenditure in short.
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