Santa’s secret

If you haven’t got a chimney, what

does Santa do?

How does he get to see you if he can’t

come down a flue? Does he get in through a window, or

simply use a door?

Or come up through a trapdoor in the

bedroom floor?

Does he squeeze in through the

keyhole?

Or perhaps a letterbox?

To deliver all his presents and pack

them in your socks?

Does he wriggle from a plughole, or

pop up through the loo?

Drop down from the skylight? There is something he must do. Could he crawl in past the flap that lets in locked out cats just below the row of hooks used for

hanging hats?

Perhaps he casts a special spell or says

a magic word?

I don’t believe it can be that – it’s simply

too absurd!

I’ve wondered and I’ve puzzled but I

still can’t work it out.

Yet every year he manages – of that

there is no doubt.

I suppose that if the truth be told, ‘tis a secret HE should keep and that we should simply wonder, as on Christmas Eve we sleep