April is such a cruel mistress: Did everyone out there in Verbal Jazz-land know that April is National Poetry Month? And no, this is not an April Fool's Joke, simply because this whole sight is dedicated to foolishness. It really is National Poetry Month, that month when everyone says they like poems, but do not understand them. This is only because poetry is presented as a magic code in search of a Rosetta Stone. This is also the month in which all who yearn to write poetry professionally cannot get beyond the simile that "tears fall like rain." So, the Verbal Jazz challenge is to write a better metaphor or simile in which both tears and rain are used, and, no, "the rain falls like my tears" is unacceptable.

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