Another splendid Sparks In The Park to kiss off 2023 in GNV.
But as a midnight rainbow fell from the sky I thought about a great artist – and no stranger to GNV – who we lost this year.
In tribute, and with apologies, to J. Buffett.
The rockets in the air. And the people everywhere
Put away their differences for a while
Oh I am still a child when it comes to something wild
Oh that was the night I painted the sky
Oh the mortars they roar in anticipation.
Preceding the sigh of the uplifting eyes
It showers us all in sulfuric sensation
The colors shine in a fiery rhyme tonight
A bombardier, a nighttime magician
I spark the sky as the rockets fly from view
Oh that was the night
That was the night
Oh that was the night
I painted the sky
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