Happy Birthday To The Love Of My Life

(sorry it's gonna suck)

Sometime in July I received an invite to a poetry festival. Upon reading the email invitation I responded, “After years of scheduling events on my partner's birthday (Aug 6th) I have to kindly decline and spend those days baking a skyscraper-sized birthday cake instead.” A few weeks later I found out I was having a cancer recurrence. That meant I’d eith…