Here It Is Again

Yeah, well, here it is again.

It’s me dang birthday.

Happy birthday to me.

Happens every year, usually.

Missed it once and was 22

For a year and ten months.

My 23rd year was rather short.

Now, I don’t worry ‘bout

Counting them, they add up.

Only one that bothered me

Was when I hit twenty-five.

At that age, Alexander the Great

Ruled the known world and

There I was, just a second year

Art student at the local college.

That’s quite a difference there.

Total bummer, cried in me beer,

Until it suddenly occurred to me

He had an edge from the start.

His father was a king.