THE BIRTHDAY PARTING
- Dark Poets Club
- Sep 16
- 1 min read
By M. S. Marshall
There’s a dead man at this party
lurking around the balloons
He eats conversation
Talks to the cake
Stares
whittering – buzz – icing
He misses the quiet
the meadow
the morgue
Out of place
in the kids’ helium
giggles