{"id":275694,"date":"2018-05-10T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=275694"},"modified":"2018-05-10T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:00:50","slug":"tweeting-in-the-cave-of-spleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tweeting-in-the-cave-of-spleen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting in the Cave of Spleen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author\u2019s Note: Spleen was the 18th\u00a0century\u2019s name for what we now call depression.\u00a0Rich, idle people were particularly subject to spleen in the days of Alexander Pope (1688 -1744) who sent a fictional character to an imaginary place (the cave of Spleen) in his mock epic, The Rape of the Lock. In this sonnet, we find DJT in a cave of Spleen.<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nOnly paltry offense from twaddling twit comes
\nnevertheless I persisted with my smart thumbs
\nas daylight dawns my kingdom wakes and yawns
\nI tweet to millions, a golden King to my pawns.<\/p>\n

My subjects read whatever subject bothered me most
\nand the lying media reacts from coast to coast
\nnews shows parade despicable attitudes towards me
\nI watch all of them closely and daily on a separate TV.<\/p>\n

I skip reading each and every single intelligence brief
\npreferring to hear oral versions in my office in DC
\nwhere I\u2019m the boss, the bigly commander in chief
\nand my stable genius is on display there for all to see.<\/p>\n

Diplomatic leadership is not my forte, I\u2019m not discreet
\ninsults and repetition make up much of what I tweet
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0
\nTake the Trump Train
\nWhile it\u2019s still on the rails and before it fails<\/p>\n

Take the \u2018A\u2019 train address to Adultery Avenue
\ntake the \u2018L\u2019 train South to Lying Boulevard
\ntake the \u2018T\u2019 train to TweeterTown for a short view
\ntake a walk on Trump\u2019s wild side, not too \u2018hard\u2019
\ntake the \u2018P\u2019 train north to Pyongyang
\nbefore any such proposed talk fails
\nbefore nuclear holocaust and a Big Bang
\ntake the \u2018D\u2019 train to the Devils in the Details
\ntake an ICBM up into the outer space race
\ntake the \u2018O\u2019 train to Offensive Oaf\u2019s Oval Office
\ntake the \u2018M\u2019 train past Manic Mouth Falls
\ntake the \u2018G\u2019 train to gander at his unmovable base
\ntake a look at his tax returns when in place
\nBetter yet take a self driving Uber before its over
\nto Trumptyland \u2018uber alles\u2019 WH and White Tower.
\n\u00a0
\nAuthor\u2019s Note: A complete train route showing Trump Train connecting lines\u00a0is available\u00a0on a new line of Trump toilet paper. Everybody\u2019s\u00a0gotta\u00a0go in more ways than one, ALTP (a little toilet paper), Drumpf\u2019s, I C BM, Oh My God; A.L.T.P.D. ICBM. OMG. acrimonious acrostic.\u2018uber alles\u2019 means \u2018above all\u2019 in German.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author\u2019s Note: Spleen was the 18th\u00a0century\u2019s name for what we now call depression.\u00a0Rich, idle people…<\/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":[18642,21141,21142,21143],"class_list":["post-275694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-icbm","tag-note-spleen","tag-trump-train","tag-white-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275694","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=275694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}