Happy Birthday To You

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Relatives are coming out of my ears. I am a person who likes solitude, and quiet time, Not to mention a nap when I have not slept the night before Thanks to acid reflux, my not-so-best-friend. I reluctantly take my gifts home, some of them Are so obscure, I have no idea what they are supposed To do, or be. I reluctantly throw them all together in a Heap in my junk closet, which gets cleaned out twice A decade or so. The closet is packed rather tightly. I push it all in there, throwing some of the stuff to the top, Listening to it land somewhere in the middle. Sometimes I hear a tiny satisfying crackling sound. I wish a fire would Start in this closet, but it does not. So I smile imagining my children having to pull it all out and Figure out what it does or even what it is, after I am gone.