By JOEY \u2018PEPE BATBON\u2019 CONNOLLY
\nSpecial to the Saipan Tribune<\/p>\n
well the last three days\u00a0of September are here
\nOctober honors saints and souls of the dead
\nlets see what the last headlines of September said
\nas the autumnal month of October draws near<\/p>\n
09\/28\/2004
\nNo. Korean minister says danger of war ” is snowballing”
\ntheir threat to use nuclear arms is truly appalling
\nNo. Korea says So. Korea’s nuke experiments are a ” big stumbling block”
\nthat No. Korea may have thousands of nukes is really a shock<\/p>\n
09\/29\/2004
\nkidnappers released two Italian female workers and five others
\nbringing relief to their families, fathers, brothers, sisters, and mothers
\nmore than 140 foreigners in Iraq have been kidnapped to this day
\nat least 26 have been killed including two Americans newspapers say<\/p>\n
09\/30\/2004
\nwell readers i’m stopping the rhyme
\nwill try again some other time
\nfor now guess i’ve had enough
\nof all this sad and bad news stuff<\/p>\n
Sources for the news headlines reported in this month long series of\u00a0daily quatrains were major network websites, online newspapers including the Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, the International version of the Herald Tribune and daily copies of the Saipan Tribune AP articles. Nature dealt the CNMI some heavy blows from August to October 2004. We got hit by three major typhoons and other typhoons to a lesser degree. Power at my house in Koblerville was out for days at a time, then on and off sporadically. TV cable service was out for six weeks. I got depressed from all the bad weather news stories, the increasing carnage in Iraq, and the horror of hundreds of school children killed in the hostage crisis in Beslan, Ossetia (near Russia). Have you forgotten that news story already? Who would want to remember such a tragic news story? It was just too painful to search for rhymes about death, destruction and other tragedies, whether natural or man-made. I enjoy writing doggerel and humorous poetry. So I went back to that. More to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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