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yay. i am 32 today. i will be 53 when baby is beer age. holy crap. thirty fuckin two. ask me ten years ago, i was certain my lifestyle would have me dead before 30. i think clay said once "if i had known i would live to be this old, i would have taken better care of myself"

hey, cool!
i was 32 when i had my 1st kid. I stayed the same age while she got older, and had herself some siblings. (how do kids do that?)

mazal tov! all the best to ya, ronnie

feliz cumpleaños gemini-yabyum!!!!!!!
enjoy your 32!!!!!! (with luck it will be 33, 34, 35 an so!!!!! )
have a great day!!!!!!!!

I remember 32 but I can't remember what I said about turning that age.
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weed joints

Happy Birthday Yabbie dabbie do!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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happy bday, ronnie

I didn't say that, I just quoted it. I think it was Richard Pryor.

I wrote this poem when I turned 30

My friend Rattlesnake Brogatti gave me a copy of Bukowski's Mockingbird Wish Me Luck for my birthday.


HUMP YEAR BLUES


Only the Rattlesnake: nefarious blues reptile,
would give Bukowski for a birthday
(but I had dreaded this day for months)
And I woke up thirty
Sure enough
certified last chance for adulthood in this culture

Jim Erwin --
Blind old Scotch bastard
like a father to me peering
at me through spectacles thick
as a drunken tongue
told me: "If you don't make it by the time yer thirty --
fergit it."
So that made me run like Hell for a time --
being twenty-seven or so
What is this "making it?"
Does that mean your pecker is forever enshrined
in some Glass Temple Vaginal
Juiced Eternal Twat Monument?
Do they freeze your seed for some Lucky Mother yet unborn
when you make it?
Do you get embalmed in pleasure, a mummy wrapped in property?
How do you know it when you make it?
Is it a little grey-suited clerk from the government
with letters you have to sign for?
Do violins swell on the soundtrack?
I think I made it several years ago when
those Mexican kids left 8 cents on my doorstep
for a flutesong I played.
So, I don't know about "making it"
but for sure -- I ain't gonna
fergit it.
Cautiously I approached this morning's mirror
I couldn't see any lines that weren't there before.
I wasn't greying, receding or for that matter
noticeably older in any way
but when I came across that pimple on my nose --
that fixed it
Fuck this thirty year old trauma!
I have MADE IT for thirty years -- I have survived
this asylum circus murder university soap opera
for three decades
not only that -- I'm doing damn good for it
I'm healthier than when I was
eighteen --
can fuck longer, do more drugs, don't need to
prove nothin'
I'm a happier person than when I was twenty
or any age
and all day long I walked around with a thousand
dollars cash in my pocket
Thirty ain't bad.

hapy birthday, man. 32 married with kid. that's what they'll say about you.

he lived out his 20s
he outlived his 20s
now he's 32

Happy Birthday, Ronnie!

32 is a great age to be!

Enjoy!

thanks fellow writer people.

"this asylum circus murder university soap opera" great line, clay.

bennie.....great little quote brother. Also i was wondering where in the scot land you are. i work with a scot. he's a fuckin crack up. i wonder what the odds are that you two are from the same area.

being 32 is no bother. woke up to some lovin and then a breakfast feast.
kinda funny though how you look ahead at how old you'll be when your kid hits certain age milestones. good thing i quit smoking.

yab,

I'm from coatbridge, an old industrial town (now very much minus its industries) about ten miles outside of Glasgow. which part of scotland did your scots pal live?

Happy (belated) Birthday, 'Ronald'! You deserve it... we all deserve a happy birthday. I wonder about those few that don't like their birthdays. A sad lot. Thank gawd you're not. No reason for you to be sad. Marriage and birthday so close together... you won't have any excuse to forgetting an anniversary.

Happy Birthday!!! What a joyous time this must be for you! Older... wiser... with child... with woman... enjoy every minute of your fleeting youth and write miles of poems and prose and haiku in celebration. You're bound to get a best seller out of all these glad tidings.

--k

I am so late with this that I should just wait till next year to say it.

Best wishes for a happy healthy thirty two yabyum.

I meant to post this for your wedding day and I never got around to that either.
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Hope all is well, I have not read the blog in weeks, going to try and catch up.

happy birthday, ronnie!
seems this is quite a time of new beginnings for you recently!