April's Fools
for years we allowed
one day of jokes
one day of pranks
one day of lies
one day of fake news
one day became two
two became months
months became a year
this year, the joke
the fools, us all
then in came the winds screaming down the mountain the giant hemlock shaking angry as us all that the end of April feels like the end of Fall and now snow does with the gust white whirling snow devils
I didn't drink coffee until after highschool that summer I took a new job at River Marina first morning on the job Pat Jennings, my new boss asked, "Do you drink coffee?" I shook my head "Well, then y