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April
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April's Fool by Stewart Stafford
The fool of April enters bowing,
Ritual humiliation's shameful call,
A harsh harlequin's wooden stocks,
Butchering "wit" to wound and maul.
A victimless crime full of victims,
Spring showers weep a jester's cheek,
Reputations pilloried in estocada—
Merciful gods spared us a week.
By noon, the branding is over,
The faux superior blunder on.
Jokers think they're oh-so-clever,
Booed offstage to oblivion gone.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro’ the sunless hours.
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