Let's make this birthday one to remember.

68 years old (Born on September 25, 1956)

Happy birthday to the remarkable Patrick Donnelly! Another year older, yet we know age has only polished your poetic brilliance. Your captivating verses in "The Charge" resonated loudly since 2003, and by 2012, with "Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin," you masterfully guided us through lyrical reflections that still haunt our literary dreams.

May today be as delightful and charmingly unpredictable as one of your poems. Keep surprising us—for a poet who turns brothels into nocturnal poetry surely has many amusing adventures still unwritten! Here's wishing you endless inspiration (and plenty more deliciously charged lines) in years ahead. Cheers!