{"id":269360,"date":"2018-02-05T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=269360"},"modified":"2018-02-05T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:00:51","slug":"diptych-and-diatribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/diptych-and-diatribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Diptych and diatribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Being a Short Tragical Prurient History of Donald Forced Upon Us<\/strong><br \/>\nparaphrasing Doctor Faustus<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWas this the face that launched a thousand ships,<br \/>\nAnd burnt the topless towers of Ilium?<br \/>\nSweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss.<br \/>\nHer lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014from \u2018The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus\u2019 written by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo paraphrase four famous lines by Christopher Marlowe<br \/>\nplease read and enjoy, try not to weep, the words below:<br \/>\nWas this the face that launched a thousand quips<br \/>\nand danced topless in the towers of Donald Trump<br \/>\non a Stormy day with Daniels and Donald in the lions den<br \/>\nor was it on a course of action close to his golf club<br \/>\nher sin mortal? or he made immortal with a costly kiss<br \/>\nall of which a fleet of lawyers and the Donald denies<br \/>\na verbatim quote from Dr. Faustus may settle this,<br \/>\n\u201cHer lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies.\u201d<br \/>\nand let us not forget what Master \u2018Kit\u2019 Marlowe<br \/>\nsaid before we depart this satiric sonnet derision<br \/>\n\u201c Money can\u2019t buy love, but it improves your<br \/>\nbargaining position.\u201d what? no illusion? no collusion?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA special happy birthday to Christopher \u2018Kit\u2019 Marlowe, born Feb. 6,1564, in Canterbury, United Kingdom.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>The Blonde Dude is a Dud<\/strong><br \/>\nInspiration from a Canzoniere sonnet, The White Doe, by Italian poet Francesco Petrarch ( 1304 -1374)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA blonde dude living in a tall white tower<br \/>\ncame on the scene, his mirrors were of gold<br \/>\nhe sent out twitter streams hour after hour<br \/>\nfrom morning till night to young and old<br \/>\nhis vision was myopic he couldn\u2019t stay on topic<br \/>\nI left him after working for him less than a year<br \/>\ntotally appalled at his ignorance and media fear<br \/>\nsomeday it will be in a tell all cable TV biopic<br \/>\n\u00a0In many speeches he repeated, \u201cbelieve me, believe me\u201d<br \/>\nhe insulted democratic institutions and the world at large<br \/>\ntrying to stop the chaos he put three generals in charge<br \/>\nlike the battery rabbit he kept ticking going on and on<br \/>\nwith media coverage every day for the world to see<br \/>\nAmerica will breathe a sigh of relief when he\u2019s gone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a Short Tragical Prurient History of Donald Forced Upon Us paraphrasing Doctor Faustus \u00a0&#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":[19967,19968,19969,19970],"class_list":["post-269360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-christopher-marlowe","tag-doctor-faustus","tag-francesco-petrarch","tag-master-kit-marlowe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269360","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=269360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}