Birthday Play & Marrow

LIGHTS UP on early AM of May 19th. THE DAUGHTER rises and enters the HALL BATHROOM.

DAD (from the hall) : HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
THE DAUGHTER (sullen, annoyed): Dad. I'm in the bathroom.
DAD (beat): Even in the bathroom, it's your birthday.

CURTAIN.

Me and Pops in Germany. June 2011.

But first let's toast to the lists

that we hold in our fists

of the the things we promise to do differently next time.