Tonight's Poet Corner: Tonight's Celebration
Tonight's Celebration
by Belinda Roddie
Sweetheart, blow out your birthday candles
and make three extra wishes to keep in
your back pocket. When the cake is cut,
I'll meet you out on the deck for beer
and s'mores, and we'll toast to another twenty
more years before this town goes to Hell. Love,
kiss me twice before you go back inside, to
comb the confetti out of your hair and force
a smile for your father. I'll be waiting outside,
in this thick dragon breath summer, sipping
lukewarm poor man's champagne and marveling
at how the amount of stars I see match your age,
such a small number, in the grand scheme of things.
by Belinda Roddie
Sweetheart, blow out your birthday candles
and make three extra wishes to keep in
your back pocket. When the cake is cut,
I'll meet you out on the deck for beer
and s'mores, and we'll toast to another twenty
more years before this town goes to Hell. Love,
kiss me twice before you go back inside, to
comb the confetti out of your hair and force
a smile for your father. I'll be waiting outside,
in this thick dragon breath summer, sipping
lukewarm poor man's champagne and marveling
at how the amount of stars I see match your age,
such a small number, in the grand scheme of things.
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