Death and Winter Come Each Year

Death and Winter come each year...
Who invited them anyway?
Are they friends?
Do they have each other over for dinner,
And swap homicidal stories?
Do they make pithy comments
While reading Poe? in mocked pathos?
In the evening, do they “sit on the ground and
Tell happy stories of the death of kings”?
Have they made a List like Nicolaus?
Are you on it?
Am I?