(1916)

Arvo Turtiainen(1904-1980)

Santa Clauses were whom wherever

      one in Spalernaya

      one as a jaeger in Germany

      one in Russia making a revolution

the rest having lost faith perhaps in gun battery work

      and who would have in them believed anyway

Härkönen, Antti, tinsmith, man of cause

      came to us on Christmas

      and said:

Eat now, drink, on next Christmas no longer shall we

      eat, drink

Where was it supposed to know that.

(1916), part of kun olin pieni, from Hyvää joulua(1967), page 18.

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