April 15 Sucks

April 15 Sucks

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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."