Wednesday's Verse - The Future of April Fools
This week’s verse moves from an urban fantasy verse about the sphinx and Egyptian myth to a speculative verse about the future of April Fools Day. It is taken from Another 365 Days of Poetry, a
collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2019.
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The Future of April Fools
The second month of spring
starts as a farce
with jokes dressed up as real
to bribe and bait,
and tease the honest folk
until the morning’s past,
and fact is fact, and fiction
has to wait.
One would have thought this
practice failed to make
its way past the most modern
centuries,
that ‘neath another sun, it
would not bake,
and that falsified facts would
simply cease.
But this was not a practice
eas’ly downed
since laughter lives in each
and ev’ry man
and trickery in mankind’s
heart abounds
so travels time, and space and
many lands
On April First, must all
lifeforms beware
for mankind’s little joke has
reached the stars
and ev’ry sentient loves a
chance to dare
the wrath engendered by a
well-played farce.
So humour isn’t just a human
trait
but is in all intelligence a
state.
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You can find the first two poetry
collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with
more genre-appropriate covers in the future. The third collection will be
released later in the year.
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