Monday, March 15, 2021

On This Day I Complete My Forty-Second Year

Younger years, it seems, had more. It
pass'd more swift than those before it.
Still, I’d swear that more was in it
than a fraction of a minute.

6 comments:

Francis Berger said...

Hey! You're finally catching up!

Happy Birthday.

S.K. Orr said...

Happy Birthday, young man!

Ah, my early forties. If only I could remember them....

A said...

Happy Birthday!

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Thanks, old-timers. I don't usually go around announcing my birthday on the Internet, but I just couldn't let a once-in-a-decade pun opportunity pass me by.

Karl said...

If you have filled this unforgiving year
With forty seconds worth of distance run,
Accept congratulations most sincere:
I can't recall a single thing I've done.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

If you have filled this unforgiving year
With forty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth -- and everything that's here
Is fodder for another awful pun!

K. West, five years or hours, and spiders

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