{"id":239615,"date":"2016-11-02T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=239615"},"modified":"2016-11-02T06:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:06:41","slug":"the-potus-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-potus-races\/","title":{"rendered":"The POTUS Races"},"content":{"rendered":"

for months now the POTUS course is
\ndisappointing all of us who truly mind
\nthose candidates leading election horses
\nwith angry crowds following behind
\nthe U.S. has had great candidates before
\nwho supported freedom and the constitution
\nnow candidates and the media engage in war
\nvoters question the election as an institution
\nthe entire nation seems to be up in the air
\nas campaigns make their final speaking lap
\nwith hope that all voting is fair and square
\nthat cheating and voter fraud stays off the map
\nmany\u00a0weary now as the POTUS race finishes
\nand hope for the end of discord diminishes
\n\u00a0
\ntitle inspired by W.B. Yeats\u2019 At Galway Races 1910.<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nNever Cast a Vote in Anger<\/strong><\/p>\n

please try to never cast a vote in anger
\nthink twice about the lies you\u2019ve heard
\ndon\u2019t risk putting our great country in danger
\nsift truth and untruth from political words
\nwhen the sound byte fades and turns to black
\ntry and recall the gist of what was just said
\nwas it propaganda from a political hack
\nor a candidate talking off the top of his head
\nafter all it is easy enough for them to say
\nwith all the campaign funds in their hands
\nanything to persuade you to vote for them today
\nand of their opponent make hypocritical demands
\nso when political hype or gaffes make you upset
\nremember you haven\u2019t heard the rest of the story yet
\n\u00a0
\nTitle inspired by W.B. Yeats Never Give all the Heart 1904. In The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2nd edition, poems from\u00a0The Winding Stair and other Poems 1933 has two 12 line poems designated with the Roman numerals X. Her Anxiety and XI. His Confidence. I used\u00a0Yeats 12-line pattern and\u00a0kept verbatim the last two lines from each of the six line sections of Her Anxiety. They seemed so appropriate.<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nHRC Her Anxiety<\/strong><\/p>\n

How could I have ever guessed
\nmy private emails would become such a thing
\nmillions of tax dollars to find out why
\nlengthy hearings held they won\u2019t let it rest
\nnew email revelations make it seem never ending
\n\u201cProve That I Lie\u201d
\nthen male sexual transgressions ugly face
\ngoes viral nationwide from both sides
\nand all Trump does is Deny, Deny, Deny
\nas the bottom is scraped in the POTUS race
\nfor what its worth it won\u2019t help voter\u2019s decide
\n\u201cProve That I Lie\u201d
\n\u00a0
\nDJT His Confidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

unlimited money to buy
\nI speak to you
\nall wrongs done I deny
\ntrue red, white, and blue
\nhow much money do you need
\nto help my campaign succeed
\nsome of my business deals went bankrupt
\nI became the king of debt
\nand learned money and power corrupt
\ndespite IRS taxes my money\u2019s hard to get
\nwith tax returns the basic fact of the matter is
\nI\u2019m a billionaire who pays very little taxes.<\/p>\n

The Weight Of Trump\u2019s Ignorance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benjamin Franklin when asked which is
\nthe best form of government said, \u201cA
\nrepublic if you can keep it. For it won\u2019t
\nlast under the weight of ignorance.\u201d
\nindeed I am insulting to my own ignorance
\nbecause ignorance has an inherent excuse
\nmy lacking understanding issues of substance
\ncommitting various types of sexual abuse
\nblocking immigrants who better their lives
\nworking hard jobs, long hours, for low wages
\nbringing their families, children and wives
\nto escape poverty and persecution outrageous
\nI\u2019m insulting to all good American people
\nwith constant lies, exaggerations, angry words
\nin interviews, in stadiums, under steeples
\neach day getting more and more absurd
\nmy campaign continues the same day after day
\nputting my obstinate ignorance up on display<\/p>\n

Beseeching Our Lady of Cyberspace<\/strong><\/p>\n

lead us into cyberspace
\nbeyond knowing and not knowing
\nto the topmost summit of truth
\nwhere email mysteries lie hidden
\nunchanged and undeleted
\nbeyond the dark clouds
\nof secretive silence where
\nall cyberspace is illuminated
\nby truth and transparency
\nour thirst for these emails
\nthe mysteries contained within
\nis wholly unsatiated
\nour minds are blinded
\nuntil their contents are unveiled
\n\u00a0
\nMy inspiration comes from Dionysius the Areopagite.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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