Here's something for April 1st which was inspired by an article in The Guardian Newspaper here in England back in July 2005. It is called "Surrounded Bytheenemy."

A Lakota Sioux from South Dakota
lies in an unmarked grave
in the northwest of England
in Salford, city of the brave.
I read in yesterday's newspaper
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
came here in 1877
with 97 Sioux and 18 buffalo.
There were 180 horses,
plus mules, elk and deer,
along with a hundred cowboys
for those English crowds to cheer.
One of the Lakota warriors
was six feet seven tall.
Just 22 years of age,
he seemed indestructible.
Surrounded Bytheenemy
was his Lakota name.
Everyone looked up to him.
He had everything to gain
but a winter lung infection
brought this giant down.
Black Elk, the medicine man
couldn't bring him round.
Far from his native Black Hills,
the Lakota sacred ground,
they dug a pauper's grave
and lowered his body down.
There he lay forgotten
till I read it yesterday.
I hope his spirit made it home.
That's all I have to say about
a Lakota Sioux from South Dakota
who lies in an unmarked grave
in the northwest of England
in Salford, city of the brave.

"I like to think Roxy would have appreciated this one." – Peter