{"id":265791,"date":"2017-12-05T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265791"},"modified":"2017-12-05T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:00:21","slug":"collusion-innuendo-quixotic-quintet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/collusion-innuendo-quixotic-quintet\/","title":{"rendered":"Collusion Innuendo, A Quixotic Quintet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fake News Blues \u201cLock Up the Media\u201d<\/strong>
\nThe news stories about me are all fake
\nI know some of them seem quite real
\nthose reporters can go jump in a lake
\nthat\u2019s the way most Trumpistas feel
\nthose that actually read printed press
\nknow paper doesn\u2019t refuse ink or tears
\nregardless of numerous Pulitzer prizes
\nmost of those daily rags are a mess
\nthey have become the lying media
\ntotally over the past two or three years
\nand so on and so forth talk shows blab
\nreporters cover the WH and Capitol Hill
\nplenty of former military and lawyers
\ngive me jab after jab in my flabby flab
\ntheir guff almost always makes me ill
\ndespite my insulting most of the free press
\nyou of course are free to pick and choose
\nany old zinger remember Peter Zenger
\nI\u2019ll keep singing the Fake News Blues<\/p>\n

Inspired by a poem written in Portuguese called Autopsychography by poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nWhen Tweets Fail in Jail<\/strong>
\nWhen those incessant tweets fail
\nearly in the morning and late at night
\nand you are afraid of going straight to jail
\nbecause your sons have not been too bright
\nthere may be some enlightenment wisdom well
\nwherever you are going to prison
\nalmost all inmates never will tell
\nyou will soon find out the reason
\njust sit for a while in your cell
\nlearn to appreciate each passing season
\nmake every incarcerated day well spent
\nand tweet what it was like to be president
\nwhen tweets fail because of a computer crash
\njust buy another with your ill gotten cash.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda\u2019s poem \u201cIf Each Day Falls.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nWondering and Wandering Through the Dump<\/strong>
\nAlone in the morning wearing only a bathrobe
\nI often walk the dumpy White House halls on
\nuncharted strolls through closets and corners I probe
\nfree at last thank goodness from presidential duty calls
\nand I ask who\u2019s this bald guy in the oil painting
\nwhat\u2019s the location of the pasture and cows behind him
\nI know the nation tires of my raving and ranting
\nthink I\u2019ll fly down to Mar A Lago tomorrow for a swim
\nalone I can do it palpable in my befuddled mind
\none hundred years from now historians will see
\nregardless of those who fell and who got left behind
\nI ruled the WH, special counsels could not deter me
\nhow long will I be here, will I ever see Lincoln\u2019s ghost
\nI\u2019m not Dolly Madison will I learn to be a gracious host.<\/p>\n

Inspired by \u201cSonnet\u201d written by Catalan poet Josep Vicenc Foix, 1893-1988<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nI Just Can\u2019t Ignore the Special Counselor<\/strong>
\nWith fixtures of gold my tower lights up the city sky
\nits windows look out upon the island and country I rule
\nI have said believe me I can get away with any lie
\nabout my IQ, Trump University, what I learned in school
\nthe Special Counsel is slowly slowly setting me up
\nwith subpoenas, my staff testifying and now indictments
\nrecording every phrase, every comma, every quip
\nas the lying media is going gaga with excitement
\nhe\u2019s building up a case by the book using no eraser
\nit may take many months perhaps a few more years
\nhe\u2019s doing it straight no chaser, a real slow pacer
\nwhen the shoe falls my base will all be in tears
\nI need lies that I hope will live and use to lie again
\nbefore I tweet myself and friends into a US Federal pen.<\/p>\n

Inspiration from \u201cBaruch Spinoza,\u201d a sonnet by Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nTo-and-Fro Cabinets Come and Issues Go<\/strong>
\nEverybody has been complaining since I was elected
\nabout the choices I have made for filling my cabinet
\nwell some are all I could get, some already got rejected
\nsome resigned and some are on the way out you can bet
\nand its not just the bigly name top cabinet members
\nsome appointments are federal judges who never heard a case
\nmy attorney general is suffering from, \u201cI can\u2019t remember\u201d
\nmy Secretary of State has a Russian oil eagle two face
\nthat billionaire education boss DeVoss is a complete mess
\nshe\u2019s all for vouchers but doesn\u2019t know much else I confess
\nI got climate deniers and multi millionaires from Wall Street
\nwho can\u2019t tell the difference between a legal tort and a tweet
\nin my first year believe me it has not been easy come easy go
\nFlynn working Turkey and Russia and hurricanes in Puerto Rico<\/p>\n

Title inspiration from Mexican poet Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959)<\/em><\/p>\n

Swan Song Dessert: Impeachment A La Mode<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026and when no rule, no precedent was found, of men by laws less circumscribed and bound.\u201d
\n\u2014John Dryden (1631-1700)<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nShould we begin the steps towards impeachment now<\/strong>
\nbefore some Congress members short term memories fade
\nshould the President take an ethics and morality vow
\nas his lack of leadership gets more and more decayed
\nwe voted in primaries for candidates as vote we should
\nmany of our votes were influenced by social media
\nthe Republican dirty tricks campaign was up to no good
\nin collusion with Russia and oligarchs through Wikipedia
\nwill more of 45\u2019s cabinet be called on the carpet and indicted
\nwill the border wall become a simple barbed wire fence
\nwill the issue of 45\u2019s more than twelve sex accusers be reignited
\nwould our nation be better off with former broadcaster Pence
\ncan Congress stop Trump\u2019s reelection three years hence
\nwill impeachment or resignation bring us someone like Pence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOh if the gods would make me rich\u201d you said\u2014gods like\u00a0a joke, and so they did\u2014\u201cI\u2019d show you all what living\u2019s for.\u201d
\n– Marcus Valerius Martialis, A.D. 40 \u2013 104<\/em><\/p>\n

What Living and the Presidency Is For<\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t hurt much to think of him going away
\nbut he made the right decision that had to be faced
\nWhat could be better than the Tidal Basin being drained
\nof those slimy new swamp creatures said their chief
\ncrocodile with a solid gold toothy bling bling smile
\nLiving is for accumulation of wealth and what I can bilk
\nfrom my captive nation .The presidency is for life on my
\ngolf courses, taking advantage of money making situations.
\nfor showing whose boss with a government jet for speed
\nfor golden showers, sinks, and toilets whatever I need
\nabove all else epitomizing opportunity cost and greed
\non this you can bigly believe me believe me believe me
\nthrough my fault through my fault most egregious fault
\nI care less my millions are safe in a Wall St. bank vault.<\/p>\n

Precipitation Cancellation of Golf Vacation<\/strong>
\nIt is four in the morning and its drizzling cold rain
\nI want to head South tired of tweeting in the dump
\nand fly into Miami for golf in my Presidential plane
\ndo private checking on dynasty investments of Trump
\njust back from Asia met up with Rodrigo Duterte
\nRody and I refrained from language vulgar and dirty
\nI took some time to play a little golf in Japan
\nmy new buddy Xi Jin Ping is not a big golfing fan
\nthat Mueller investigation has got me by the \u2018calls\u2019
\ncalling my family, cabinet, and bigly business contacts
\nmy mistake firing Comey, Muellers got me by the\u2018hauls\u2019
\nhauling information thousands of papers loaded with facts
\noh oh too bad the rains still coming down in sheets
\nguess I\u2019ll hunker down in the dump do more tweets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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