Whoa
At 1:20pm, 40 years ago today, I was born. Just being here at all is pretty miraculous — I was supposed to arrive in late January. (I weighed 34 ounces when I was born. In 1967. And I’m alive.) I spent about 3 months in an incubator, which I’m sure fcked me up on some deep psychic level somehow, hahahahaha. The medical bill was over a million 1967 dollars & I can’t say how it was paid for because I’m unsure if the statute of limitations has run out. (Not joking hahaha.)
And it is my 17th wedding anniversary. 
I met Darryl when I was a musician in Detroit & he was living in Nashville & visiting Michigan while working on a mutual friend’s record. We grew up a mile from each other. Happy anniversary, honey:
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{Totally joking. Darryl never reads this blog anyway LOL.}
Hey did you know Quincy Jones produced most of Leslie Gore’s records, like the fantabulous Hey Now? I love the drums & bass on that record. It’s funny to think Quincy Jones produced “It’s My Party” but he did.
Man I love big early ’60s slappy snare drums. Music production mostly pretty much sucks now. (Said the 40-year old.)
Darryl is taking me to the Belcourt to see a Preston Sturges screwball comedy because I GET TO PICK (and I’m pretty low-maintenance). 
I think my sense of humor is circa 1940 because Jack Benny, Preston Sturges, Phil Harris, Fred Allen = funny funny to me.
ps. a found poem:
Preston Sturges’ Eleven Rules For Box Office Appeal
A pretty girl is better than an ugly one.
A leg is better than an arm.
A bedroom is better than a living room.
An arrival is better than a departure.
A birth is better than a death.
A chase is better than a chat.
A dog is better than a landscape.
A kitten is better than a dog.
A baby is better than a kitten.
A kiss is better than a baby.
A pratfall is better than anything.
Rethabile responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 1:27 am →
Happy birthday, Jilly. Incubators either kill you, or turn you into a poet.
Jessica responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 8:47 am →
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! I will play your singing bowl for you! (Why did I not know this was the birthday of you?) Happy animal-versary, too, to you and Daryl!
C. Dale responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 10:18 am →
Happy Birthday! I was born early, too. Not as early as you, but early back in 1969.
Collin responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 12:47 pm →
Happy Birthday, Jilly!!! And happy anniversary.
Maria McKane responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 12:52 pm →
Happy Birthday, Dill Pickle! So glad your premie heart was strong, you million dollar baby you. Happy Anniversary to you and Darryl too! Miss you, girl!
Love,
Maria
Erik France responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 2:28 pm →
Wow! Happy Birthday, Jilly, from the D! That’s quite a beginning and — I’m with you on the music production. For me — also born in the 1960s — the really cool production sounds ended by the early 80s. And I swear I’m open-minded! and well-eared
Maybe the world ended a la Ursula K. LeGuinn and we’re living out a radioactive dreamlife . . .?
Tricia responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 2:43 pm →
Aww, Jilly, happy birthday!!
Jeannine Hall Gailey responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 3:06 pm →
Happy birthday! And happy anniversary!
I was also an incubator baby. Maybe it makes your brain grow poems from an early age.
Thank’s for the B-day Gift! < Just Kristin responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 3:20 pm →
[...] Today is The Poetry Hut’s Jilly’s birthday, and even though she doesn’t know me, and despite the fact that she rsses me a present every day, she has given of herself yet again: Preston Sturges’ Eleven Rules For Box Office Appeal [...]
ashabot responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 4:54 pm →
Happy Birthday. Good day to be born. 34 ounces. Wow. Teeny to might oak. Have a great year.
Anne responds:
Posted: October 21st, 2007 at 6:37 pm →
Happy happy birthday! I was early too, although only like three weeks early. I guess poets are impatient types.
I hope you enjoy your forties as much as I’m enjoying mine!
poet with a day job responds:
Posted: October 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am →
Happy and Congrats all around the town!
Jilly Dybka responds:
Posted: October 23rd, 2007 at 1:40 pm →
Thanks
Wow all the poet incubator babies!