BIRTHDAYS
measuring time—
twenty-five or thirty-some years
yet to go … or less
looking at past records
of family births and deathsmy dad felt a hundred years
was too long to stick around for
my mother thought that ninety-four
was quite a bit too short
neither was pleaseddon’t know what I’ll think
when my world and I transform
when time becomes eternity
maybe I’ll notice, or perhaps I’ll
forget what came before
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