4.1

Just an ordinary day with nothing much amiss.

Crazy's in the air I’m certain, or maybe it’s just me.
All things seem the same, almost, ordered and mundane.
But for my daughter, the game is quietly now afoot.

So I smile and wait till lunch time comes her way at school
and she savors that first bite of the treated Oreo
that crunches with what really wasn’t ordered.

Perhaps the cookie’s texture will spill the beans
of its tampered freezer time.
A whiff of mint or expectant squeeze

could betray the day
you can never quite foretell.

I can only imagine her face
when her mouth opens wide

to shout aloud, "Toothpaste?"

Ahhh, The Ides of March are nothing
when April has begun again
and you've been got by dad.

Happy April Fools Day