Birthday Party

The Birthday Party 23/10 ten minutes two twelve when he will be 75, ten minutes can take very long; he can get a stroke or a heart attack, while waiting, he is standing up; few people die when standing up. There was an English queen who when death was approaching, refused to go to bed. For a week she was standing up in a futile attempt to beat death....she lost 11 nil. It is midnight and the twenty four of October. Ok, he made it, but must do this every year, living a month longer is important. Or not! As a child a year took forever, now a year is a windblown leaf scraping along a dreary road and fall comes around in record time. Once a girl said she loved him, but that was 60 years ago it doesn’t matter anymore, but he remembers it well and it is heart-warming to know this, as a rain drop in a desert, yet the drop was for him it fertilized his journey through the domestic landscape of his tedious life.