Because April is also Dog Appreciation Month, today's poem is:
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog
by Judith Viorst
Mother doesn't want a dog.
Mother says they smell,
And never sit when you say sit,
Or even when you yell.
And when you come home late at night
And there is ice and snow,
You have to go back out because
The dumb dog has to go.
Read the rest of the poem here.