Leap-aphobia

Exultantly allowed again
to be a touch contrary –
an extra day pops in to
lengthen gleeful February –

alas, its sass does nothing
to relieve its neighbors’ arch
resistance to this folderol:
the windy blowhard March

and huffy January both have
turned their backs against
this upstart in the calendar,
and do not like it: whence

comes this appalling circumstance? –
the months are losing sleep!
Every damned four years we
watch while they all take a leap.


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