How to Birthday

A piece of labor cake
was served along with a special
water that washes away fear
we love what you did
with your hair
the absence of glee
is replaced with
a pearly nodule
it could be a pill
the salad is rubbing
the spokes
grinding into
bump jazz
birthday lips
kiss bright spots
on your neck and belly
to swoon rapturously
with mailman and hiccup
a coffin full of foam
you get it all
birthday fuck
in a brutal milk shake
patch of ivy and
poison darts
ivory dice roll
on the back of
a gazelle (fun)
and you are better off
a year older
than the one
before the year
you let the water
wash away
another fear.