Let's make this birthday one to remember.

95 years old (Born on May 11, 1930)

Happy Birthday, Kamau Brathwaite! May your day be as delightfully slow-paced and poetic as those legendary horses you wrote about. Your words have galloped gracefully into our hearts, even if the horses themselves preferred a leisurely stroll.

From "History of the Voice" to "Afternoon of the Status Crow," you've given us timeless wisdom wrapped in wit and insight. Congratulations again on that Griffin Poetry Prize—proof that sometimes slow horses do indeed win races!

Here's wishing you another year filled with laughter, inspiration, and perhaps fewer status crows interrupting your afternoons. Keep riding slowly but surely toward greatness!