{"id":275907,"date":"2018-05-14T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=275907"},"modified":"2018-05-14T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T20:06:33","slug":"a-torturous-trilogy-of-sad-sonnet-syllogisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a-torturous-trilogy-of-sad-sonnet-syllogisms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0A Torturous Trilogy of Sad Sonnet Syllogisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tweets are Not to Blame<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(Inspired by William Shakespeare\u2019s sonnet 70)<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat tweets are not to blame is not your biggest problem<br \/>\nnarcissists are often the target of ridicule<br \/>\nthey love themselves and people laugh at them<br \/>\nsince way back when they were in high school<br \/>\nwhen you love yourself you become a target of others<br \/>\nmockery proves to you how popular you are<br \/>\nenvy eats up your rivals sisters and brothers<br \/>\nin denial you maintain you are a quality star<br \/>\nyou refuse to grow old and color your hair<br \/>\nyou suck in your gut and cover your bald spot<br \/>\nyou enjoy toilet fixtures of gold and imperial flair<br \/>\nyou get incensed at all the funny names you are called<br \/>\nyour genius is disguised by being inarticulate and ignorant<br \/>\nthe love from your base makes you always kiss up to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarcasm?\u00a0Or Just a Silly Spasm<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>in which 45 repeats as much as he tweets<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLet me repeat, he did, he did, and so did she<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the way he got out, the way he got out<br \/>\nISIS wants to give her MVP they want to MVP<br \/>\nyou hear me you hear me do I have to shout<br \/>\nit is rigged believe me believe me I heard<br \/>\nI never meant that I never meant that at all<br \/>\nyour jumping on my every word every word<br \/>\nwe\u2019ll see in the fall we\u2019ll all see in the fall<br \/>\nnobody\u2019s listening they just don\u2019t get it<br \/>\nmany people said I heard many others get it<br \/>\nof course I was just being sarcastic sarcastic<br \/>\nI called National Enquirer and had them vet it<br \/>\nit was sarcasm sarcasm just a silly senior spasm<br \/>\nanother example of my word use abuse chasm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sour and Sweet Tweets and Repeats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It came out of him many times in speeches and tweets<br \/>\nhe said it so often it sounded like a chant or mantra<br \/>\neveryone became familiar with his constant repeats<br \/>\n\u2018believe me\u2019\u2018no collusion no collusion\u2019\u2018believe me\u2019.<br \/>\nWhen he was laughed at and belittled in media reports<br \/>\nhe called them \u2018lying media\u2019 and \u2018enemy of the people\u2019<br \/>\nhe had a ready response with his prompt insulting retorts<br \/>\n\u2018believe me\u2019 \u2018no collusion no collusion\u2019 \u2018believe me\u2019.<br \/>\nWhen he experienced international scorn and rejection<br \/>\nwithdrew support for agreements after years of negotiation<br \/>\nhe answered all reports with one of his repeat interjections<br \/>\n\u2018believe me\u2019 \u2018the worst deal ever in history\u2019 \u2018believe me\u2019<br \/>\nSo he departs from the podium and charms the nation\u2019s hearts<br \/>\nrepeating \u2018only I can do it\u2019 \u2018stable genius\u2019 and \u2018I\u2019m smart\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweets are Not to Blame (Inspired by William Shakespeare\u2019s sonnet 70) \u00a0 That tweets are&#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":[528,21184,67,13361],"class_list":["post-275907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-mvp","tag-national-enquirer","tag-people","tag-tweets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275907","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=275907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}