\u201cJ\u2019ai vecu dans ces temps et pourtant j\u2019etais libre (I lived in those times, yet I was free).\u201d
\n\u2014Robert Desnos, French Surrealist poet (1900 – 1945)
\n\u00a0
\nI tweeted in those times, my first two years
\nI was almost alone, by myself, not fallen yet
\noblivious, arrogant I ignored human decency
\nand sent my daily drivel out on the internet.
\nI ruled in those days , in the land of the free
\nI watched the stock market and all the polls
\nrevolving around me, \u00a0always watching TV
\nmy government shutdown ignored innocent souls.
\nYou who read this what do you \u2018really\u2019 think?
\nembarrassed by the way I made America \u2018great\u2019?
\nare you still involved in the democratic process?
\nrent paid? mortgage? do you think politics stinks?
\n\u00a0You still living, think nothing of me, I\u2019m long gone
\nAmerica continues to grow in a progressive dawn.<\/p>\n
Kingfish 45 Sought Caught Bought \u2013 Alive<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYes, idiots, paralytics, parasites go bobbing in the ebbing Caught in the glare of US national cable TV focus Where in Cyberspace Lies 8,000-Plus Lies<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c\u2026haunt me with hope and tempt me to pursue; Eight thousand fact checked lies now forever reside Did America Choose the Lesser Evil<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cO world, thou choosest not the better part!\u201d My country you thought you chose the lesser evil \u201cJ\u2019ai vecu dans ces temps et pourtant j\u2019etais libre (I lived in those times, yet…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-294659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294659","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=294659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsewage, nights out in the suburbs, where there are no lights.\u201d
\n\u2014Elizabeth Bishop, (1911 – 1979)<\/p>\n
\ncampaign targeted from Russia on multiple fronts
\nCongress investigation results surprise and stroke us
\nTrump may have been a paid and willing Russian dunce
\n\u201cThis Russia \u2018er\u2019 thing\u201d seems to keep focusing
\non thieves, thugs and mugs from both sided indicted
\ninternational banking connections are being sought
\nwho sold out to whom and who is gonna get caught?
\nA net thrown in troubled waters with rubles for bait
\nthen double Russian eagles and an American bald
\ndove on a hapless hyperbolic thoughtless kingfish
\na prime time presidential entree on the dinner plate
\na fried fish on the surface rotting from the head
\nto the country\u2019s shame he plays the conspiracy game. <\/p>\n
\nthe gods, methinks, dwell just beyond the blue\u201d
\n\u2014from Sonnet XVI by George Santayana (1863-1952)<\/p>\n
\nand haunt US citizens from east coast to west coast
\ntweets in cyber cloudy cyberspace they can not hide
\nexpose off the cuff hyperbole, brag, bluff, and boast.
\nWith national exposure his bluster on the TV screen
\nhis big and small lies are very easily seen through
\nlike Pinocchio whose nose grew and grew and grew
\nhis ignorant and irrational logic is rude and mean.
\nIt\u2019s a \u2018sad\u2019 state as he denigrates the FBI and DOJ
\nfires one cabinet member after another, no peace
\nno one wants open positions, he plays musical chairs
\nstaffers fear speaking, dissent must desist and cease
\nIndeed a tragic state for America and foreign affairs
\nas 45 shut down the country and tensions increased.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014George Santayana, 1863 – 1952<\/p>\n
\nbut through the Electoral College you got the worse
\nthe real true \u2018lesser evil\u2019 won by three million people
\nyou got the guy with a ruble filled Russian purse
\nNow America stumbles in the eyes of the world
\n14,600 Hispanic children in custody on the border
\n45\u2019s cabinet breaks up the WH in chaos and disorder
\nCongress must lead us out of Trumpty Dumpty\u2019s mess
\nBipartisanship in legislation must exist in their sessions
\ncommon sense and compromise on both sides of the aisle
\nas they legislate one bill at a time at a snail\u2019s pace
\npast, over and around 45\u2019s tantrums, fear, and dread
\n\u00a0Help our Trump bruised democracy heal and save face
\nthe rich privileged spoiled 45th POTUS we must replace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"