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Sets: set 2 -
 Birthday Ribbons - Day Five

          "1-15-77      blue"


          And the 
          Arctic Tern
              flies farther
                to nest
                  than    any
                      other
                    bird
            because I
                need it
              to:
                  and lives
                  in sunlight
          more than any
            creature
                on this
                    Earth:
            as far as
              10,000 miles
              & 8 solid months
                    of day:

          Today
          Janice & I
          drove north
          northwest
          32 miles
              to celebrate
            my 36th year
              with her mother
                & father
                & 1st sister:
                    Edie,
                    Kenny,
                    Julie:
            spaghetti 'n'
                      sauce
                by Julie;
            banana cream
                & cherry pies
              by Edie;
            when Kenny
                  got home,
              a wish for a
              happy birthday
                with:
          "May you live forever
            and I
                  never die."

          Here & there
              swirling across
            the highway home,
                smoke
                  of snow:
            the mailman brought
            card #3:
                     a greeting
               from Janice's
               brother, David,
               and his wife
                     & boys:
            the Lamplighter
            called:
                    our lamps
                are fixed:

  


~ 
Brian A. J. Salchert