{"id":236517,"date":"2016-09-15T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=236517"},"modified":"2016-09-15T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:00:02","slug":"poems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/poems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D.T. raps and rhymes after leaving Mexico\u2014the same day after leaving Mexico in Phoenix, Arizona<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By JOSEPH CONNOLLY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c on day one, we will begin working on<br \/>\nan impenetrable, physical, tall,<br \/>\npowerful, beautiful, southern, border wall\u201d.<br \/>\nwell don\u2019t that beat all? the unmitigated gall<br \/>\nasked if he discussed the price and who\u2019d pay<br \/>\nD.T. said not all. Mexican President Nieto  said<br \/>\nthey would absolutely not pay for a wall at all<br \/>\nso it continues on for only two months more<br \/>\nit is getting old we have heard it all before<br \/>\nhe\u2019s selling tee shirts advertising the builder<br \/>\nleaders around the world look on bewildered<br \/>\nit will never happen as every sane person knows<br \/>\nAtlantic to Pacific whichever way politics blows<br \/>\ngreat part about the wall? it begins Trumpty\u2019s fall<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Trump sandwich &#8211; P B &amp; J<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By JOSEPH CONNOLLY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Peanut Butter and Jelly one might at first think<br \/>\nhow about Prejudice, Bigotry, and Paranoid Jelly<br \/>\nPREJUDICE like peanut butter smooth and chunky<br \/>\nD.T. thinks Mexican immigrants negative funky<br \/>\nBIGOTRY like PB can be fattening and go rancid<br \/>\nD.T.\u2019s grows bigger and he just can\u2019t keep it hid<br \/>\nabout that PARANOID Jelly he completely flips out<br \/>\nat the slightest negative that comes down on him<br \/>\nthan Tweets like crazy about it on his android<br \/>\nhe seems very reticent to release his tax return<br \/>\nPARANOID about what potential voters might learn<br \/>\nabout the sandwich bread of what is that made<br \/>\nit has to be White we don\u2019t need to Wonder why<br \/>\nbecause D.T. is a P B &amp; J sandwich kind of guy<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired CNMI PSS teacher who taught English on Tinian and Saipan from 1984 to 2014. He currently enjoys studying cosmology, Asian poetry, and life on Tinian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.T. raps and rhymes after leaving Mexico\u2014the same day after leaving Mexico in Phoenix, Arizona&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13389,676,13390,13391],"class_list":["post-236517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-bigotry","tag-mexico","tag-paranoid-jelly","tag-prejudice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236517","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}