We missed Santa this year in Pomes and Epigrams

So,
because of Covid,
(does everything have to start this way now?
geez)
Okay, well because of all that stuff,
We didn’t have the annual hometown
Santa Parade.
No sons and daughters holding banners
kartwheeling and waving bashfully
to their younger siblings on the sidelines.
No brass band to follow either.
Yeah, Nah, this year
Santa was scheduled to come around to ours.
Some kind of neighbourhood tour, on a sleigh?
Who knows. But
we set out ten minutes before.
And at the first footfall on our stoop, heard
“aoooga! AOOOGA!”
Still, we waited around like dorks, not accepting
that Santa had come and gone in some kind of automobile.
Surely it is better to be fashionably late
and please the impatient fans, than
to blast by while they are still putting on their left shoe and searching for the right?
Next year, let there be a Santa Parade again; I’m so done with social distance.