April Fool’s Day
written by: Eric Shelman
Playing practical
jokes and hoaxes on others
yelling “April Fools”
Cultures for that
celebrated centuries
old, mysterious
Dating from 1582, when France
switched Julian, to Gregorian
changing first of the year, Jan 1st
Called for by 1563 in the
Council of Trent, Julian and
Hindu, New Year, was April 1st
Assigned asinine April Fool’s for
Practicing Julian’s and not Gregorian’s
Religious holiday change
Infantilely
Lavishly laughing loudly
Fiercely festering fools facetiously
Outrageously
Outstandingly
Light-heartedly
Senses humorously
Dumbfoundedly
Absurdly
Yearly
Absurd, absurdity, amuse, amusing, April
audacious, astute, April Fool’s Day
Bamboozle, bantering, befuddle, bemuse
bewilder, bluffing, bogus, bold, brainless
buffoon, bunkum
Celebrate, chicanery, childish, chump
comical, calendar, caper, celebrate
celebration, childish, chuckle, comical
confusion, contrary, crafty, crazy, cunning
custom
Deceive, deception, dabble, daft, delude
dopey, droll, dumbfound, dupe
Enthusiasm, entomophobia, eremophobia
erythrism, esosphobia
Fun, funny, fool, foolish, folly, farce, feign
fib, finagle, fake, fourth month, fool’s
errand, first of April
Gag, gullible, game, guess
Hilarious, humor, humorous, hoax, hoodwink
Infantile
Joke, jester, jokester, joker
Kooky, knocky
Light-hearted
Mischievous, mislead, mockery
Nonsense
Outrageous
Play practical jokes, pranks, prankster
preposterous jokers
Quirky, questioning, questing
Ridiculous, ruse, rattle
Scam, scheme, spoof, stunt, silly, surprise
sense of humor
Tomfoolery, trickery, tricks, talent, tease
trifle, triviality, trumpery
Unwitting, uncouth, unkind
Victim, victimize
Wild, wacky, wary, whim, whimsical
widespread, wit, wise-acre
Xenial
Youth
Zany
April Fool’s Day, has come let us begin
by printing and cutting out paper fish
writing poisson d’avril, kick me on, pin
placing on these deemed April Fool’s
backs, swishly
put on our disguises, making fun of
mocking fellow citizens, magistrates
placing fake tails, signs on people’s
butts, shoved
sending people on phony errands, baiting
hunt the gowk, cuckoo bird, symbolic
fools
making outrageous fictional reports
newspapers, radios, televisions, tools
spreading hoaxes on social media, shorts
glorifying, worshiping jokesters, jesters
joking, pranking, hoaxing, everyone
testers
Singing, praising, worshiping jokesters
jesters, pranking, hoaxing, joking
coaxed with everyone they want, to
hoaxsters
especially, those still celebrating Vernal
Equinox in the Julian calendar, poking
April
Fool’s yelled, pranksters
hoaxsters, jokesters, jokes
deeming everyone idiotic
Pranks
hoaxes
jokesters
April’s Fool’s yell
unknowing Julian’s change to Gregorian
Fun
joking
mischievous
pranking, hoaxing
play
There was once a Pope named Gregory
XIII, who, changed Julian to Gregorian
calenders, altered New
year, March’s end, April 1st, grew
to January 1st, in France, 1583, called
made fun
Of everyone who hadn’t, heard, standstill
weren’t up-to-date on this change still
celebrating Julian
New Year Day, herculean
were, butt end of their jokes, hoaxes, thrills
Calling April Fool’s, pranks included
placing paper fish, backs, concluded
as poisson d’avril means
April Fish, referred gleans
young, easily caught fish, excluded.
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