Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
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Another candle, another year you made your own. I will not ask you to stay little.
My daughter brings light to the day, then moves all the candles away; she says, “Keep the cake,
You light your own candles now, choose the restaurant, bring wine to our table.
Eight balloons lean on the ceiling. Eight strawberries guard the cake. Eight friends arrive too loudly.
Thirty does not need advice wrapped in a birthday card. It needs room for the life
Between the apple and the sandwich I fold a yellow square: Happy birthday.
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