I don’t have a joke for you, I’m afraid. I don’t even have a funny poem. How about a shoddy and quickly written limerick to set the mood?

There once was a man from Vancouver.
He stood at the edge of Dam Hoover!
He’d lost all his hope
and couldn’t find rope
so jumped to his death like a loser.

Asian American Writers’ Workshop
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Btwn Broadway and 5th Ave

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Old stomping grounds for me!

Lost

She wasn’t found
until days after her death.
The foul stench
was how we knew.
In life, she lived alone,
a good neighbor, never too loud.
She used to tell me stories
about her job as a counselor.
I hope she found her salvation
but I doubt it.
Maybe I’ll find out one day.

All the poems I wrote this month are available in my poems section. No prompts though.

Of course you can also enjoy a good poem! Here’s one of my recent favorites by a great poet, who happens to be from the UK and is female. Not that she’s only good as a female UKer, which is why I emphasized that she is a great poet first. Anyway, you get the point. Enjoy this poem by Selima Hill.

THE WORLD’S ENTIRE WASP POPULATION

This feeling I can’t get rid of,
this feeling that someone’s been reading
my secret diary
that I kept in our bedroom
because I thought nobody else but us
would want to go in there,
except it’s not my diary,
it’s my husband,
I’d like you to smear this feeling
all over and into her naked body like jam
and invite the world’s entire wasp population,
the sick, the halt, the fuzzy,
to enjoy her.

By Selima Hill

My favorite magazine, Poets & Writers, is having a challenge too!

http://www.pw.org/content/poetry_challenge

There are several ways you can enjoy it. One, I suggest you look around to see what events are happening in your city during April. There are probably lots of cool poetry readings you can attend! And you could also read your own writing if you like!

If not, then you could also just read poetry. Sign up for Knopf’s (imprint of Random House) Poem-A-Day newsletter, which only happens in Aprils! This year it’s dedicated in honor of the late John Updike.
check it out here: http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/

You could also read the poem of the day from Poetry Daily,
another cool poetry site: http://poems.com/

If you’re really bold and want to test your wit, then you could take part in Writer’s Digest’s April Poem-A-Day Challenge! Each day, we’re given a prompt and construct a poem from said prompt. If you write one participate every day, you get a neato badge to put up on your blog or website haha. Not that that’s the best incentive, but hey, every poem gets considered for publication!
http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/

And if you’re ultimately lazy, then you could just read whatever I write here. Or something. Anything!

Be well, cyberspace!

ps. check my poems section all this month!