PAD Challenge Day 1: Chain of Fools

Welcome April. Welcome National Poetry Month. Welcome readers. Welcome poets. Welcome back to PAD (Poem-A-Day)! Let's go! PAD Challenge Day 1: Write a foolish poem. Chain of Fools In today's world, on today's time, I'm a fool. Yous a fool. We're all fools to believe that our lives are not being bamboozled into a game of musical chairs. Wondering- who will be the next one taken out before the music ends? We're so distracted by the whimsical tune in heavy rotation on the channel news that makes it feel like its more than okay to play when it's not fairly okay. Then again, maybe it is okay because it wasn't their familiar blood soaking, staining square footages until their ancestral enzymes were broken down by base enzymes and mopped up just to make the laminated floors look pretty and smooth like life didn't live there; and death just humbly and accidentally found its way outliving the lives innocently taken. And the hearts of