{"id":2675,"date":"2022-04-30T01:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2022-04-30T01:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T05:24:23","slug":"farewell-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, April"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last day of “the cruelest month,”<\/p>\n

and still the war drags on.<\/div>\n
Our super hero smells like Musk,<\/div>\n
new Twitter Lord, Elon.<\/div>\n
Meanwhile, in Colorado,<\/div>\n
there’s a man who’s caught bird flu.<\/div>\n
And at a California beach,<\/div>\n
coyotes swim with you.<\/div>\n
Boris Becker’s gone to jail<\/div>\n
for bankruptcy deceit.<\/div>\n
Suicide by U.S. sailors<\/div>\n
has gone on repeat.<\/div>\n
M.T. Greene’s “no recollection”<\/div>\n
rings a warning bell.<\/div>\n
If the right is not contained,<\/div>\n
this country goes to hell.<\/div>\n
Maybe May might change the tide,<\/div>\n
but odds are pretty thin.<\/div>\n
Fate has dubbed November<\/div>\n
as our final chance to win.<\/div>\n
Perhaps the summer weather<\/div>\n
could perform some turnabout,<\/div>\n
or else create more fires<\/div>\n
that no water can put out.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last day of “the cruelest month,” and still the war drags on. Our super hero smells like Musk, new Twitter Lord, Elon. Meanwhile, in Colorado, there’s a man who’s caught bird flu. And at a California beach, coyotes swim with you. Boris Becker’s gone to jail for bankruptcy deceit. Suicide by U.S. sailors has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=44","url_meta":{"origin":2675,"position":0},"title":"Going, Going, Gone","author":"Rick Young","date":"November 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Mantle\u2019s dead. 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