So what’s new?

AFTER the intoxication that
A Merry Christmas brings
Arrives a brand New Year
Full of the same old things

The same old courtrooms
The same routine of cases
The same humorless milords
With their long drawn faces

The new diaries have arrived
New dates will fill up with ease
Old diaries will retain relevance
As reminders of unpaid fees

No cause now causes a flutter
Hope some spark new fire stokes
Old friends after a few pegs
Start spilling those same old jokes

So what's new in the New Year?
Is a very good question to ask
But the reply, like a new variant,
May find the same old mask!