{"id":263127,"date":"2017-10-26T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=263127"},"modified":"2017-10-26T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:00:01","slug":"orange-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/orange-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Old-Fashioned Orange October<\/strong><br \/>\nNow orange October a pumpkin clich\u00e9<br \/>\nplump turkeys are destined for super marts<br \/>\nas November grows near short grows their day<br \/>\nautumnal dirges now tear through their hearts<br \/>\nvegetarians cook firm soybean curd<br \/>\nbasted turkeys in the oven roasting<br \/>\nhot juicy giblet gravy from the bird<br \/>\nmashed potatoes for dinners we\u2019re hosting<br \/>\nharvest brings an abundance of things nice<br \/>\nfresh apple cider jugs chill in the frost<br \/>\ngingerbread and pumpkin pies filled with spice<br \/>\ncovered with whipped cream regardless the cost<br \/>\ncandies cookies and other sweet delights<br \/>\nwill end October\u2019s jack-o-lantern nights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evening is Spread Out Against the Sky<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cLet us go then, you and I when the evening is spread out against the sky\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n\u2014from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (1888- 1965)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking toward the skyline in the Southeast<br \/>\nits clear tonight and I\u2019m wondering why<br \/>\nthose few clouds look like some big beast<br \/>\nlots of stars shining bright up there in the sky<br \/>\nthe moon is coming up soon reflecting the sun<br \/>\ndid you know its made from elemental metal<br \/>\nit will be billions of years before its day is done<br \/>\nthe Milky Way flows from the spout of the Teakettle<br \/>\norientation through the Big Dipper to find Polaris<br \/>\nCassiopeia sits in judgement in her celestial chair<br \/>\nmariners pray to Star of the Sea Ave Stella Maris<br \/>\nquietly in flows the dawn of a brand new day<br \/>\non our remote spiral arm of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In October Wine is Truth Beer Not Uncouth<\/strong><br \/>\nA chronic dyspepsian, devilish dude, enjoyed big lunches<br \/>\nhe remembered the chili and onions and forgot the relish<br \/>\nwith which he wolfed down three of Ignatius\u2019 Lucky Dogs.<br \/>\nthe brown mustard spread by a *Confederacy of Dunces<br \/>\nWeiners, Hamburgers, Berliners ate them dogs all day long<br \/>\nnoodles, buns, cream sauces, krauts, bread and cheeses galore<br \/>\naccompanied the sausage and beer and down the gullet pour<br \/>\nwhile they loudly sang an Oktoberfest beer drinking song<br \/>\nthere were lobster rolls and Maine lobster out on the dock<br \/>\nfresh reef fish intestines tasted on a jagged coral rock<br \/>\ntuna hearts pulled right out of the fish on a Pohnpeian boat<br \/>\nlife in the water, life with a glass of wine, down the throat<br \/>\nreds whites cabernet pinot noir chianti merlot and zinfandel<br \/>\nInVinoVeritas, life with wine enjoy the taste, effect, and smell.<\/p>\n<p><em>*In the comic American novel by John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, the main character named Ignatius pushes a hotdog cart shaped like a hotdog (they still exist). The name of the hotdogs is Lucky Dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Autumn Taught \u2019Em<\/strong><br \/>\nleaves of maple were falling so I caught \u2019em<br \/>\npumpkins were plumping so I bought \u2019em<br \/>\ngeese in clouds headed south so I sought \u2019em<br \/>\nbuck with a big rack of horns so I shot him<br \/>\nwinds blowing cold off the hill so I fought \u2019em<br \/>\nboth my knees of old in pain so I got \u2019em<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old-Fashioned Orange October Now orange October a pumpkin clich\u00e9 plump turkeys are destined for super&#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":[18801,17344,18802,21],"class_list":["post-263127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-alfred-prufrock","tag-big-dipper","tag-ignatius-lucky-dogs","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263127","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=263127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}