Page 54 - New Year's cards

Deployed: first panel. Deployed: second panel.

Text:

Observe: the year has come to pass;
It’s time to see that raised our glass
Reflects half-empty or half-full
The sad or happy face we pull.

Midnight celebrant or mourner:
Spin the axis, turn the corner--
Pour anew the means to measure
Fortune’s flips of pain and pleasure.

Note: the card is intended to mock the function of an hourglass in
the hands of its recipient. After folding, the two sides represent the
end of the old year (completely drained) and the beginning of the
new year (fully charged) halves of the hourglass—black for sand,
white for empty space. The recipient must turn the card upside down
to read it, going from 12/31/2011 to 1/1/2012 in imitation of the
motion of resetting an hourglass.