Another April

A Poem by Ken Gordon

 for Paul Muldoon

When’s National Foot Health Awareness Month? 
April. It’s April, you month-minded fool. 
I am surprised at you, young man. I am.
You spend thirty days counting shoeless feet:
You’re nearly a Quentin Tarantino,
focusing all your April attention
on this foot and that. And that. I can see 
no reason to continue the charade 

that this cruelly marketed month exists 
to honor poems and poets. You ought 
to write of our noble podiatrists
fighting off bunions, hammertoes, foot rot.   
Nice, I suppose, to have a month for verse;
twelve would be poetic justice. None? Perverse. 

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