how to birthday as a verb

children love
parties, cake and ice cream
adults may need
to settle for less excitement
less food
and more exercise
we can do it and here's how:

1) watercolors
2) yarn
3) fabric
4) sports/athletic events/exercise
5) nutritional and interesting food
like three peaches or spinach onion soup
and the list
as we do
goes on and on until
it does not.
salute to Shel Silverstein