My Birthday Party

MY BIRTHDAY PARTY Once, I invited some special friends to my tea party, I made cheese, cress and tomato sandwiches, blueberry yogurt and a pot of jasmine tea. I spread a white linen table cloth I’d embroidered with flowers one evening when I was alone, I placed a blue vase covered with purple flowers and bluebirds on the table, . . . prepared some words for a poem to read to my friends, I waited by my window all evening, then waited some more, . . . but nobody came, I died a little more that night. Tom McFerran.