How to Spend a Birthday

Light a match. Watch the blue part flare like a shocked piñata from the beating into the sky, watch how fast thin wood burns & turns toward the skin, the olive-orange skin of your thumb & let it burn, too. Light a fire. Drown out the singing cats. Let the drunken mariachis blaze their way, streaking like crazed hyenas over a brown hill, just underneath a perfect birthday moon.