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If John Hughes’s Sixteen Candles taught us nothing else, it reinforced the onerous adult lesson that, just as things don’t always go as planned, we don’t always get what we want – at first, at least. Cambridge poet Gaia Lenox, featured this week, straddles the line between the dreamy optimism of childhood and the often-disappointing realism of a more grown-up world.
It’s really human of you
By Gaia Lenox, 16, Cambridge
Sixteen candles:
Close your eyes,
make a wish,
bury it under the driveway for no one to find.
Breathe the sky in
and out,
a naive hope
that birthday candles will secure
a happily ever after
or new shoes,
whichever comes first,
and you hope it’s the shoes.
So when neither arrive
on your front stoop,
the disappointment
shoved up your nose
doesn’t drip down your throat and
drown you.
But again you will wish
with your hands
on every stone that gets
lodged in your shoe,
on pen caps
and planets,
saving the scraps of paper
from fortune cookies.
(Lucky numbers: 12, 5, 67, 23, 2, 9.)
Close your eyes,
make a wish,
bury it under the driveway for no one to find.
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