The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party

Women of power come together
men of questions
come together to see

To be thirty-three
you just might be free.

Gather art, gather the bird of amazing flights.

Gifts of joy
and penetrating heart glances.

Lace and grassy plants,
cigarettes and beer,
men and women singing their care.

Fallen asleep upon the absence of quilted dreams.

Women of power come together to feel
the men of their heart.

Men! Celebrate,
you can give birth, too!

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