Sour

by Aleks Phillips
(London, UK)

Another year older is no trivial affair

So don't hide it away in such despair
You actually look quite debonair
for an old person.

Don't think of it as a year closer to death
Don't think of it as another wasted year
Think of yourself as a carton of milk:
past its sell-by date, but still good for a little longer.

Because this is your birthday, another year gone
And still you are there, just trundling along
So even though you live in a zoo,
you look like a monkey
and you smell like one two:

Happy Birthday to you.