birthday card and its (dis)contents

Music: Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain (1984)

From Fifteen False Propositions Against God, "VII" by Jack Spicer.
Trees in their youth look younger/Than almost anything/I mean/In the spring/When they put forth green leaves and try/To look like real trees/Honest to God my heart aches/When I see them trying/Comes August and the sunshine and the fog and only the wood/grows/They stand there with big rough leaves amazed/That it is no longer summer/The cold fog seeps in and by Novemeber/They don't look the same (the leaves I mean) the leaves fall/Such a hard reason to seek. Such heart's/ Timber.

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