\u201cObserve good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.\u201d
\n\u2014George Washington, 1st\u00a0POTUS<\/p>\n
Hamburgs and hotdogs are great for summerlong barbecues. Here are\u00a0poems about them with Independence Day views and\u00a0a sonnet parody I wrote sung to the tune of You Ain\u2019t\u00a0Nothing But a Hound Dog, a popular 1950’s song recorded by\u00a0Big Mama Thornton and Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n
You Ain’t Nothin\u2019 But a Hamburg<\/strong><\/p>\n You ain\u2019t nothin but a hamburg, frying all the time A Hotdog Returns Dyspeptic Heartburn<\/strong><\/p>\n They sold me, right after I cooked, because my smell Independence: Where Did it Send Us<\/strong> \u201cSo I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.\u201d \u201cObserve good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.\u201d \u2014George…<\/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":[5350],"class_list":["post-302750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-independence-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302750","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=302750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nyou ain\u2019t nothin but a hamburg, frying all the time
\nnothing but a hamburger sizzling in the fast food line.
\nWell, they said you were lowfat, that was just a lie
\nthey said you was lowfat, that was just a pack of lies
\nwannabe lowfat get rid of them buns, shake and fries.
\nYou ain\u2019t nothin but a hamburg, frying all the time
\nyou ain\u2019t nothin but a hamburg just a frying all the time
\nnothin but a hamburger with a cheese slice on your mind.
\nYou ain\u2019t nothin but a hamburg, crying all the time
\nyou ain\u2019t nothin but a hamburg, just a crying all the time
\nlittle baby burger those onions got you cryin\u2019 all the time.
\nYou ain\u2019t nothing but a hamburger, just a grilling all the time
\nflip it over quarter pounder there\u2019s some hot dogs next in line.
\n\u00a0
\n\u201cMy favorite meat is a hotdog, by the way. That is my favorite meat. My second favorite meat is hamburger. And, everyone says, \u2018Oh, don\u2019t you prefer steak?\u2019 It\u2019s like, I know steaks are best, but I like hotdog best, and I like hamburger next best.\u201d
\n\u2014Mitt Romney, U.S. senator, Utah<\/p>\n
\nto them seemed piquant and delicious in the air
\nthat aroma slowly wafting everywhere
\nwith its warm succulent fragrance casting a spell
\nall around until no nose would have a nostril
\nthat had not had its nasal passages stirred.
\nThen its neural receptors in the grey matter
\nsent everyone a most mouthwatering message
\nfrom me. Pile those hot dogs high on the platter.
\nBut this boiled world is not my only visage.
\nIndeed one might say this Frankfurter sometimes frys
\nI should acknowledge my Viennese heritage
\nand love for my Italian and Polish sausage allies.
\nPerhaps, once, with sweet relish, I dreamed of mustard.
\n\u00a0
\nHere is some non-caloric brain food for thought: \u201cIf the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to slaughter.\u201d
\n\u2014George Washington<\/p>\n
\n\u201c\u2026the very essence of our interdependence is peace, love, discipline, and tolerance.\u201d
\n\u2014Slinger Francisco aka The Mighty Sparrow
\n\u00a0
\nEach 4th\u00a0of July we celebrate independence, where did it send us
\nafter the Revolutionary War into a terrible bloody tragic Civil War
\nthen into two great World Wars with a great army to defend us
\nfighting against Japanese Imperialism, German Nazis and more.
\n\u00a0Independence sent us on one of the world\u2019s great political journeys
\ntowards freedom for all mankind from dictatorship and tyranny
\nit sent us U.S. citizens in that direction but dictators still abound
\nand tyrants (both petty and grandiose) still exist the world around.
\n\u00a0\u201cWhat hath God wrought? \u201d used by S.F.B Morse, telegraph inventor
\nflash forward to the cyber highway with a tweeter leader at the center
\nour 45th\u00a0president came into office through the electoral college we now
\nknow about the U.S. Constitution he has a serious lack of knowledge.
\n\u00a0Legislative independence sends US Congress members and reporters
\nto examine the horror of children in detention on the Mexican border.
\n\u00a0
\nA final thought from our 16th\u00a0POTUS, Abraham Lincoln: \u201cThose who deny freedom to others deserve it not themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u2014S.I. Hyakawa, (1906-1992) English professor, president of San Francisco State University, U.S. senator from California, 1977 to 1983 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"