Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
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Thirty does not need advice wrapped in a birthday card. It needs room for the life
Another candle, another year you made your own. I will not ask you to stay little.
Eight balloons lean on the ceiling. Eight strawberries guard the cake. Eight friends arrive too loudly.
I cannot set your cake down or straighten the candle leaning toward the window.
Between the apple and the sandwich I fold a yellow square: Happy birthday.
There are things I should have told you sooner.
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