Another All Fools’ Day

 

 

Another All Fools’ Day is here

But nothing like before

When we sent the fool further and further

Sometimes, from door to door.

 

It’s the third for the COVID virus

That some argue was a hoax

But COVID is nothing like All Fools’ Day

That we regarded as a joke.

 

I find it particularly interesting

That All Fools Day has lost its appeal

And it passes almost unnoticed

Like a long-forgotten creed.

 

Maybe the fools have also gone

And nobody gets tricked anymore

Or perhaps, we’ve become so busy

With many a daily chore.

 

Whatever the reason is,

All Fools’ Day is nothing like before,

Maybe we have become so serious

Such jokes aren’t funny anymore.

 

 

Or maybe we are all fools

And All Fools’ Day is every day,

Consequently, April 1^st is just another

In a year full of All Fools’ days.

 

Three hundred and sixty-five days

Plus, one more for a leap year,

That All Fools’ Day is every day

To me is abundantly clear.

 

You only have to look around

At the behavior of the world

And if your eyes are not dysfunctional

With me you will concur.

 

Stewart Russell © April 1, 2022