I had a productive Friday, Aug. 23 morning. Four sonnets on 45 before lunch. My muses were the Dave Matthews Band, T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare and the newly proclaimed \u201cChosen One.\u201d It was a cathartic poetic experience. After finishing them I wrote my third eulogy, a limerick, on the same subject. As Fats Waller would say, \u201cHere \u2019tis, I\u2019m throwing it at you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Essential Emptiness of Donald Trump<\/strong> I\u2019m hollow, inside and out, shout it out, filled with brain gout I\u2019m the best, the best ever, half empty half full, best of all the rest It\u2019s me, I\u2019m the best, but there really is nothing at all left upstairs \u00a0I Never Said That Before. Now I Say Fore!<\/strong> Trump Tale Between His Legs Signifying Nothing<\/strong> POTUS 45 A Hollow Man<\/strong> Joey ‘Pepe Batbon’ Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong> I had a productive Friday, Aug. 23 morning. Four sonnets on 45 before lunch. My…<\/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":[26,6468,304,13844],"class_list":["post-306844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-donald-trump","tag-las-vegas","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306844","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=306844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cRemember us\u2014if at all\u2014not as lost violent souls, but only as the hollow men the stuffed men.\u201d <\/em>
\n\t\t\t\t \u2014T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nProclaimed by others, \u2018King of Israel\u2019 that\u2019s me, that is real
\nIt\u2019s me, about \u2018indefinite detention\u2019 I have little comprehension
\nIt\u2019s me, this week 08\/23\/19 \u2018The Chosen One\u2019 disorganized rage
\nkeeping children in a cage, tweeting per \u2018indefinite detention\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m hollow, a straw man filled with air, because I really care
\nI\u2019m hollow, an inarticulate speaker and leader, clumsy old lout
\nI\u2019m hollow, hot air, new policies of cruelty and fear year after year.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m the best, a stable genius, ask anyone from my departed cabinet
\nI\u2019m the best, \u201cKim Young Un wrote me beautiful love letters\u201d still
\nI\u2019m the best, Putin said so, Sec\u2019y of State Rex Tillerson had to go.<\/p>\n
\nI try to hide the emptiness by dying my few remaining head hairs.<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0\u201cIt is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.\u201d<\/em>
\n\t\t\u2014Act 5 in Macbeth, a tragedy by William Shakespeare (1564 -1616)<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nI and I and more I, never a sight for sore eyes or golden rest room
\ngyrations from me absolutely no one is picking up good vibrations
\nI and I AyeYiYi most popular president in history no complications
\nI bigly endorse and send Putin and Kim Young Un supplications
\nWhat? I never said that. You think you heard what I never said
\nabout my lack of diplomacy and foreign policy not a single word
\ncame out of my mouth include comments domestic and on the Fed
\nI never said it that is my denial and I can say it with a phony smile
\ndon\u2019t forget I\u2019ve said many times I\u2019m a stable genius and I\u2019m smart
\nimmigrant children can stay inside chain link border cages indefinitely
\nthat policy began with Obama Democrats right from the very start
\nask my base the lying media or Fox news they will agree completely
\nI and I alone need say no more my choppers waiting I\u2019m out the door
\nheaded to my nearest golf course watch out when I say, \u201cFORE \u201d.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHow could I be such a fool like me, I let you down tail between my legs.\u201d <\/em>
\n\t \u2014from a 1990s rock song by Dave Matthews Band.<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nI realize now that I should have lied many times more often
\nafter a round of golf there was always time for such words
\nyesterday, today, and tomorrow some deceptive words soften
\nthe lies and fabrications making them sound less absurd.
\nTo my very last Tweet on my very last day as US President
\nand then after that from my golf courses in a warmer clime
\nI leave a legacy of telling the most lies to the incoming resident
\nrecording my special twit in cyber space for all recorded time.
\nAnd through the coming centuries of American political history
\nas students and\u00a0 scholars study about the greatness of POTUS 45
\nsurely they will all struggle with the strange wonderful mystery
\nof why I consistently told so many bold faced lies while alive.
\nDespite truth corrections I remain a niggling nabob of Narcissus
\nask my other self, the Chosen One, do you think they will miss us?<\/p>\n
\nMister Trump\u2014he lied. A ruble for the old fool<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nHe was a hollow man he was an empty man
\nhe liked to repeat he was a man without a plan
\nfull of temper tantrums tweets and sound bytes
\nteleprompter filled with information he can\u2019t read
\nAlas! old racist tropes, one sided conversations
\nwith advisors he seldom ever listened to
\nto no one but himself he shows devotion
\n\u201cparalyzed force, gesture without motion\u201d*
\nas we transition from an America made less
\nin the eyes of the majority of US citizens
\nthe strength of our democratic values we bless
\nthank the US Constitution for providing sense
\nhollow, empty, no lights on upstairs? no surprise
\ncan\u2019t wait until Congress will open its eyes.
\n\u00a0
\n*a line from a T.S. Eliot poem The Hollow Men<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nPOTUS 45, Eulogy No. 3<\/strong>
\n45th\u00a0POTUS Trump was often in a rage
\nhe put infants and children in a cage
\nlied about himself and all his crimes
\nknown as a nincompoop for all times
\na bizarre anomaly on the Presidential stage<\/p>\n
\nJoey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired teacher and has been named a poet laureate of Tinian. He has taught English in CNMI public schools for the past 30 years. He has also taught in Alaska, New Orleans, and Las Vegas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"