Let's make this birthday one to remember.

80 years old (Born on September 30, 1944)

Happy birthday to the legendary bpNichol! May your day be filled with poetic puns, concrete cakes, and sound poetry serenades. We celebrate you today not just for your Governor General's Award-winning brilliance, but also for making us all scratch our heads delightfully at "The Martyrology." Your words have danced across pages (and sometimes off them), leaving readers both inspired and pleasantly puzzled.

Here's hoping your birthday is as creatively chaotic as your groundbreaking poetry—full of joyful surprises and playful twists. Keep bending language into shapes we never imagined possible; after all, who else could make letters dance quite like you?