{"id":239473,"date":"2016-11-01T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=239473"},"modified":"2016-11-01T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:00:56","slug":"literary-nook-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/literary-nook-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LITERARY NOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Part I: To an Old *Ass, His Party Being Tethered to Him<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nhey rich old ass stumbling in a deplorable race<br \/>\nI loathe the insults that come out of your face<br \/>\nand often peck out and post a silly sonnet<br \/>\nabout your demagoguery and something on it<br \/>\nfor now your partisans are all quite dismayed<br \/>\nretreating from egregious gaffes you have made<br \/>\nand just like the natural world as it unfolds<br \/>\nsound bytes and videos have your story told<br \/>\nunder that golden hair do you anticipate<br \/>\ndespite silver spoon birth your future fate<br \/>\nrefusing still to divulge your federal taxes<br \/>\nso voters will never know what the fact is<br \/>\ndoes your \u2018bigly\u2019 ego feel some political pain<br \/>\nas Pence is forced to cover for you and explain<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Part II: To an Old *Ass, With No Class<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nfoolish ass, wouldn\u2019t it be better to show<br \/>\nthere is one thing about diplomacy you know?<br \/>\nfor voters fear what they hear and see<br \/>\nyour praise of Putin and blatant bigotry<br \/>\nwhen asked a question its curve balls you send<br \/>\nquoting, \u201cpeople I know\u201d and \u201cI heard from a friend\u201d<br \/>\nyou can\u2019t take criticism and wind up complaining<br \/>\npressed on an issue you have a hard time explaining<br \/>\ndiscrimination against Mexicans and Muslims you choose<br \/>\nto say to African Americans \u201cwhat the hell have you got to lose\u201d<br \/>\nwhen exposed as a groper in front of your bride<br \/>\nits denial and more denial but there\u2019s too much to hide<br \/>\nyour demagogic campaign will soon come to rest<br \/>\nas voters go to polls and Hillary Clinton is blessed<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Inspiration from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) poem: \u2018To A Young Ass, Its mother being tethered near it\u2019. *\u201cass\u201d is being used here to mean a stupid, obstinate, or perverse person.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Donald\u2019s Campaign Deletion Completion<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nit was a time of \u2018bigly\u2019 decisions<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s insults became incisions<br \/>\nin a deluded dark American vision<br \/>\nfrom his mouth frequent foul emissions<br \/>\nstump talks filled with lies and suspicions<br \/>\nfor which he showed little contrition<br \/>\nat least Hillary used some erudition<br \/>\nmany of his ideas wouldn\u2019t reach fruition<br \/>\nlike the US border Mexican Wall fission<br \/>\nhis denial of misogynist sexual collisions<br \/>\nin debate he refused to state his position<br \/>\non accepting a post election results tradition<br \/>\nso by the time of the 2016 POTUS election<br \/>\nmany moved away from Trump\u2019s direction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trumpty\u2019s Capitol Hill Crying Complaint<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nhalf my money gone and I\u2019m in debt<br \/>\nmy IRS tax returns pile up unfilled<br \/>\nstill Trump Empire aspirations to build<br \/>\nmore towers. I need loans you bet<br \/>\n\u201cNot indolence, nor pleasure, nor the fret<br \/>\nof restless passions, that would not be stilled.\u201d<br \/>\nbut the media, and Hillary, the strong willed<br \/>\n\u201ckept me from what I may accomplish yet\u201d.<br \/>\nThough not on Capitol Hill, I see the past<br \/>\nmy lying about video clips and sound bytes<br \/>\nin a Capitol city where I would never last<br \/>\nSenate investigation committees from left and right<br \/>\nand be subjected to the \u2018rigged media\u2019 blast<br \/>\nkeeps me up crying and tweeting these nights<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Inspiration and quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u2019s Mezzo Cammin, Boppard on the Rhine. Aug 25,1842.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Rubles Burn in Trump Tax Return<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nis\u00a0 Donald Trump in bed with rich Russian commies<br \/>\nreports say he took billions from Russian oligarchs<br \/>\nhe continues praising Putin and ruble rich patriarchs<br \/>\nstill plans to deport Mexican children and mommies<br \/>\nwhy is Trump stalling on release of his tax returns<br \/>\nmost recent POTUS candidates have all done this<br \/>\nwhat exactly does Mr. Trump want voters to miss<br \/>\nhe\u2019s petrified what the nation\u2019s voters will learn<br \/>\npollsters who take small samples put both themselves<br \/>\nand readers who follow at the mercy of sampling luck<br \/>\nvoters who follow and believe all the bigoted racist and<br \/>\nIslamaphobic theories will go for Donald J. *Upchuck<br \/>\nmeanwhile as interested citizens are unable to learn<br \/>\nRussian rubles collect interest in Trump\u2019s tax return<\/p>\n<p><em>* \u201cupchuck,\u201d vb (1929) : Vomit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Special to the Saipan Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part I: To an Old *Ass, His Party Being Tethered to Him \u00a0 hey rich&#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":[14033,14034,14035,13844],"class_list":["post-239473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-african-americans","tag-campaign-deletion-completion","tag-old-ass","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239473","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=239473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}