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August baby

Helen Motro

I am an August baby,
a birthday girl whose big day stole by
year in year out, while everyone was out of town.
Marked only by cards from a faithful few,
celebrated by a solitary ice cream cone, or two.

I want to ask the other August boys and girls:
Does the toll still crawl on inexorably
even minus fanfare and cymbals?
Or, if she pushes ahead unnoticed through the years
does an August baby remain forever young?

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