April 15 Sucks 39 TS Elliot Once wrote That April Was the cruelest month Boy, was he right For April 15 Many bad things occurred Lincoln was killed Hitler was born Kim Il-sung was born The Titanic sank 1945 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz 1962 US national debt above $300,000,000,000 1989 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests 1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion As learned the hard way, “Even little people have to pay taxes” 2013 33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq 2020 US's deadliest day during the COVID-19 pandemic with 2,752 deaths reported 2021 Yet another mass shooting in the U.S. As I drove across the country I watched the former guy Locked up the nomination In his unlikely march To the nomination US taxes are due US Foreign Service officers Have to complete The dreaded annual Employee Evaluation Where they have to Creatively lie about How great they are Including the surreal “Area for improvement” Also known as the Kiss of Death No entries, and no winner (Bummer, because I'm a Poe fan) NEW PROMPT: Tomorrow, April 15, is usually the deadline for Federal tax form submission here in the US. (It falls on a weekend this year, so we get an extra few days.) But that doesn't mean April 15 doesn't suck. In fact, April 15 is National That Sucks Day, commemorating all of the bad things that happened on April 15, such as Lincoln's assassination and the sinking of the Titanic. Write a story or poem about something that happens on April 15 to which an appropriate response is, "That sucks." |