HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY I don’t much care about the month I was born As July does seem as good or bad as any other It was Nature’s timing, plus a few weeks more I guess a Julian calendar has much to answer for Yet conception due to my father and mother And the whole astrology thing, mainly a yawn There are few celebrated famous dates in July At least here in this part of a Protestant world With no Saints’ days, just some sinners I suspect And growing agnosticism starts to feel correct But elsewhere, a pledge when a flag is unfurled And the month is OK, when it’s sunny and dry