Good morning all! It is April first, and while I am long out of the habit of April Foolin', I would like to ceremonially open April with two items I try to post yearly.

The first is always retold upon this day because April first was the day it happened to me. It is the Fractured Penis (Not Mine) story, about the time a student of mine broke his dick and told me about it.

Second, I don't know that I'll do poetry month this year, but even if I don't, I can still post the traditional Waka Waka poem.

The Symbolic Poem
by Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese

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This poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.