"Happy Birthday to Me?"
Written October 24th, 2020
By Doctor Ricky 1024
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'On this very day and with these words?'
'Lord God let's start simply with just the years?'
66 years...
'Almost 20 years...
'A 36 career job all tossed down the drain?'
'And, is it any wonder that I'm not completely insane?'
...
'I shall write down and say?'
'792 long months have passed away!'
'Yes, since my conception!'
'Dear Lord God.'
'Have I been moving backwards or forward in the right or wrong direction?'
'Three nervous breakdowns and hospitalizations!'
...
'Yes, those months are long gone but now what about these 3,444 weeks?'
'As I take a peek?'
'Hath slipped away Lord God.'
...
'As if lubricated with Mobile One Motor oil this day!'
'And, I'm a writer now!'
'Not a mechanic!'
'That's not my job!'
'Geez Louise!'
'Jiffy lube me?'
...
'Yes, there hath been all the fun times as a child.'
'And, all the after school football and baseball games.'
'Covered with the many stitches and pain?'
'Lord God above?'
'Perhaps the scars still remain?'
...
'And, come to think of it?'
'It seems, to me?'
'To be or not to be?'
'But is that is truly the question on this...
"My Birth of Day?"
...
'Or Lord?'
'Have Eye only taken a Peek?'
'Broke the surface?'
'Cast the die?'
'Cross the Broken Heart and want to die?'
'I must forget about all those weeks!'

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'Come now with me?'
'As we're now going to move a little bit further into my days?'
'As if in a haze?'
'Yes!'
'My long, lost, days, of my Lousy Life!'
'First lost the Only Son?'
'And, followed a short eight months later?'
'With the Only Wife?'
'Yes Lord God above.'
'Almost 20 years of marriage and a 36-year career all down the drain!'
...
'And on these days of
24,108?'
'Perhaps I did hit a stumbling block or Two?'
'Yes Lord God, when I lost first, my only Son, and then my Only wife?'
'As if a Lousy Date with Destiny and Fate?'
'And, a dance that wasn't very nice!'
...
'And Lord got no need to now cry or think twice?'
'As I now remember all the wonderful Christmas's long past.'
'But Lord for some odd reason?'
'I continue to try to grasp?'
...
'All those wonderful Holidays and Special events?'
'It's as if I have now...
Seventeen years later?'
'Pissed nearly each and every one away?'
'But those hours?'
578,571?'
'They are all so much fun?'
'Yes Lord God each and every one!'
...
'And, as I'm fishing deeper...
'Deeper now...
'Ever so much Deeper?'
'I've seemed to have hooked on to a Large Mouth Bass?'
'34,714,299 minutes!'
...
'Now Lord, that's a lot of fish to clean!'
(If you know what I mean?)
'But even that's not the very best?'
'Of my horrible life-long Quest?'
'And yes!'
'I have saved the last for the best?'
...
'And Now God?'
'Exactly what is my purpose and what is my job?'
'For presently....
'It seems to me that I have now caught...
'A whale by the tail!'
'As I present to you on this day...
'A total 2,082,857,950 of Grief...
'On my *Birthday?'
Approximate Word Count: 583.