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Ultimate Birthday

By Shannon Richards
August 11, 2025
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Round the sun I go, turning forty-two,
Ultimate Answer to life, the universe,
And everything echoing through and through,
Withholding its wisdom like it’s a curse.

Simply the answer to six times seven,
Or how many roads must a man walk down,
Isn’t knowledge meant to rise and leaven
Not lead to a complete mental breakdown?

Through the window, the world burns,
As if our hearts have become frostbitten,
And all I have to combat all these turns
Is the power of words I have written.

The Ultimate Question won’t get me far
Unless I assume a form more bizarre.


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Shannon lives outside of Cleveland where she homeschools her two children. Since she was young, she has loved running off into the woods to write stories and poems, look for space ships, and dance fairy rings.

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    Beautiful, Ivor!

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    Thank you for your gracious words, Violet 😍📖🌏

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    So aptly 'you' Ivor! I love it!

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