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<b>MayVaneDay Studios (Gopher Edition)</b>
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<p><b>a birthday every day</b></p>
<p>published: 1-10-2019</p>
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<p>every day, the universe sketches itself anew<br />
like an etch-a-sketch broken by accident from a cousin's fall<br />
if I am made of the same stuff as the stars<br />
then it is my birthday every day</p>
<p>but even if the atoms that make up my body<br />
all somehow- miraculously- came from the same ball of gas<br />
every day these days I keep reinventing myself<br />
so every revolution might as well be another birthday</p>
<p>I still suspect that others are lying about their birthdays<br />
an effortless reach for clout<br />
meaningless numbers on a screen<br />
that could all be extinguished in a moment's breath<br />
like the birthday candles you purport to require</p>
<p>but what is a birthday, anyway?<br />
just a day that marks one more year around the sun<br />
one more year of being on the run<br />
running out of time</p>
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