I hear it’s your birthday May 12, 2024

 


 I kept expecting the band

to break out in the song

“ I hear it's your birthday”

 though it was Rolling Stones band

 and not The Beatles

 and what I got  was a rendition

of the traditional  happy birthday song

sung for one of the fans in the crowd

 who had just turned 30

a mere youngster

 though the scene brought me

 back in time to when

 we all were at that age

on the edge of becoming old

when nobody trusted anyone over 30

and Mick said he did not wish

 to be playing rock after that age

who is now on tour at 84

 all of this a bit too nostalgic

 when those I played with

 have not survived

while I have amazingly


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