In 2004, ten years ago today,
\nWhat did news headlines say?
\nHere is a stanza, a quatrain
\nThat will try to help and explain:<\/p>\n
09\/01\/2004<\/strong> 09\/02\/2004<\/strong> 09\/03\/2004<\/strong> 09\/04\/2004<\/strong> 09\/05\/2004<\/strong> 09\/06\/04<\/strong> (Joey “Pepe Batbon” Connoly)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2004, ten years ago today, What did news headlines say? Here is a stanza,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[542,169,250,455],"class_list":["post-178009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-caribbean-2","tag-china","tag-network","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo morning papers and network news we\u2019re all tuning in
\nit\u2019s Republican Convention time as spin doctors spin
\nspeeches from V.P. Cheney & Arnold Schwarzenegger
\nswelled muscle heads getting bigger and bigger<\/p>\n
\nRepublicans on Madison Square Gardens stage
\nin the streets\u00a0activist\u00a0rage, some locked in a cage
\nnegative vibes from Vice President Cheney
\nArnold S. gets applause for being so zany<\/p>\n
\nAbout his War on Terror
\nBush runs off at the mouth
\nwhile a school full of children
\nis held hostage in the Russian South<\/p>\n
\nMany Pacific typhoons and Caribbean hurricanes
\nislands and\u00a0peninsulas hit by heavy winds and rains
\nRussian school hostage deaths completely insane
\nBush and Kerry continue a neck and neck campaign<\/p>\n
\nHurricane Frances shows Florida its wrath
\nas most of the state falls under its path
\nheavy rains in southern China cause hundreds of deaths
\nas flooding and landslides blow deadly breaths<\/p>\n
\nRussia mourns terrorist victims\/ we search for bin Laden
\nworld leaders might heed this verse of W.H. Auden
\n\u201c I and the public know\/ What all schoolchildren learn
\nThose to whom evil is done\/ Do evil in return.\u201d<\/p>\n