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Tramp Poet
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0 posted 2003-08-17 11:49 AM


Happy Freakin Birthday

Seems there ought to be a law
that one is never alone on one’s birthday.
That the balloons and party favors
should never mock the loneliness.

Full bowls of chips and nuts
enough beer on ice to last a month.
Birthday boy all dressed up with nowhere to go
drinking on a dark front porch...alone.

Handful of real, true friends
staying painfully till they could safely escape.
Howling at the moon in full monty
sick and tired of sick and tired.

Empty bed, humming Happy Birthday
as the numbness brings sweet relief.
Just another harbinger to so-called life
finding one’s joy must be the trick.

Perhaps the concept of happiness
in on vacation with one’s elusive muse.
Seems there ought to be a law
one is never alone on one’s birthday...

Nothing new under the sun, so they say
time and time will soothe the raging beast.
It’s the day to day mundane, the ordinary
eventually smothers the unbearable...


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© Copyright 2003 Daniel James Burt - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2003-08-17 12:03 PM


Man, do I ever know this one.
Good job.

We are all equal but we’re individually different
and able to reach the impossible if we try.

Skyfire
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2 posted 2003-08-17 06:16 PM


*big huge hugs*

There's nothing like a good fight with a horse to put your problems into perspective
Happy Trails To You

Aenimal
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3 posted 2003-08-17 10:48 PM


agrreeeeeeeed
gemjop
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4 posted 2003-08-18 06:22 PM


I have never once truly LOVED a birthday. what is up with birthdays?

happy freakin birthday.

Instant karma's gonna get you.

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