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Howie Good
  
 
 
Birthday Party
 
for Barbara
  
 

If I died this very instant,
they’d find only an empty matchbook
 
and a couple coins in my pockets.
I want to be someone else
 
by my next birthday,
but I’d still want you to be
 
naked and churning above me,
or at least solemnly blowing out
 
the tiny pink candle of my heart.




 


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Again with the Howie Good, one of our regulars. Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing. He was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the featured poet in the Autumn 2007 issue of The Grand Rapids Literary Review.
  
     
 
  
 
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