“Rabbit, Rabbit! Pinch Punch! First of the month. White Rabbit, No Return.”
--for Good Luck, said on the first day each month.
April Fools’ Day – In All Good Fun
You can’t believe a thing you read today,
at least not entirely. There may be a grain
of truth, but you’ll have to sift it out yourself.
A friend reminded me of an old date night spoof
to take an ugly girl out to dance—a one-night stand.
She was that girl for some but now she has become
swan to duck as compared to them—a silk purse
to their ear of pig. Another friend met the fellow
of her dreams out on a date on this day years ago.
They’ve been married ever since and every single
year she says she’d do it all again. I never could’ve,
though. I joked once that I was pregnant, then vowed
never to again, because so many wanted me to be.
My neighbor was born on this day, and there are those
whose work I know, born today that I’ve never met.
Take Anne McCaffrey, for example: the first woman
for a lot of things science fiction and fantasy, in real life
won a Hugo. Still, reports say she struggled to be taken
seriously. Often asked how she found time to write,
like a boss, she would say: “You’ve got that wrong—
how do I find time for housework with all my writing!”
I know some Aprils who were born in May or June.
Go figure. Yes, and it’s the month to celebrate poems.
Regarding lines, you have given me one or two.
If mine are worth stealing, that sounds like a boon
for us both. I say, “Good luck, my friend!” I do mean it.
About the Author: Geraldine Cannon is a poet, scholar, and editor, also working as a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, under her married name–Becker. She has been published in various journals and anthologies. She published Glad Wilderness (Plain View Press, 2008).. She has been helping others publish, and had stopped sending her own material out, but she was encouraged to do so again, and most recently has a new poem in the Winter issue, Gate of Dawn (Monroe House Press, 2024).
Image Credit: David de Coninck “Two Rabbits” Public domain image courtesy of Artvee.
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