{"id":259355,"date":"2017-09-01T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=259355"},"modified":"2017-09-01T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:00:48","slug":"picnic-poems-kalsarikannit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/picnic-poems-kalsarikannit\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnic poems and kalsarikannit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When Ripe Watermelon<\/strong><br \/>\nwhen ripe watermelon bursts its rind<br \/>\nand juicy red flesh can be seen<br \/>\nall the fruits of summer come to mind<br \/>\nand watermelon is the queen<br \/>\nthe crowning glory of every picnic<br \/>\njust what every BBQ needs<br \/>\nthump for ripeness to get the right pick<br \/>\nhave fun spitting out all the seeds<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Snowcones!<\/strong><br \/>\nI would build that cone in air<br \/>\nthat slushy cone those mounds of ice<br \/>\nand all who slurped would taste it there<br \/>\nand all would shout, Snowcone! Shave ice!<br \/>\nits melting juicy colors rare<br \/>\npiled in shaved mounds so nice<br \/>\nso close your eyes and taste with joy<br \/>\nsummer delights for girl and boy<br \/>\ndessert in sweet Polar Paradise<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>The Hot Pepper Sauce<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(after W.C. Williams poem \u201cThe Red Wheelbarrow\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>so many depend upon<br \/>\na hot pepper sauce<br \/>\nsplashed without restraint<br \/>\non some fried chicken<br \/>\n<em>Finadene\u2019 Giya Fiesta<\/em> (pepper sauce for the Fiesta)<br \/>\n<em>gayera agupa pupuenge<\/em> (cockfight tomorrow night)<br \/>\n<em>guaha bula finadene\u2019 falak<\/em> (lots of hot pepper sauce to go)<br \/>\n<em>para talonan yan tinol<\/em>a (for the dead cock and chicken soup)<br \/>\n<em>Biba San Jose\u2019 yan Biba San Isidro<\/em> (Fiestas held on Tinian)<\/p>\n<p>This poem is translated from Chamorro. Tinian has great wild boonie peppers and a fiesta and cockfight to go along with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kalsarikannit\u2014a Sonnet On It<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(A word from Finland, it means the feeling you get when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>so your big picnic was cancelled due to heavy duty rain<br \/>\ntwo months ago you and old friends began to plan it<br \/>\nmore rain forecast there\u2019s an alternative let me explain<br \/>\nuse an old remedy from Finland called kalsarikannit<br \/>\nit\u2019s a bit anti-social but no driving and safe no doubt<br \/>\nyou have stocked up on beer and snacks are ready to go<br \/>\nso get drunk at home in your undies and don\u2019t go out<br \/>\neveryone else is at the movies watching a new monster show<br \/>\nread some online memes, a book, or magazine, it can\u2019t fail<br \/>\ndo it for the cancelled picnic or party Saturday or Sunday<br \/>\ncall the mainland and talk to family or an old island pal<br \/>\ntry to carry kalsarikannit over to night football Monday<br \/>\ngrowing tired of the corrupt political climate on our planet<br \/>\nstay home safe on your couch and practice kalsarikannit<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ripe Watermelon when ripe watermelon bursts its rind and juicy red flesh can be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18136,18137,773,18138],"class_list":["post-259355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-biba-san-jose","tag-finadene-giya-fiesta","tag-finland","tag-polar-paradise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259355","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}