{"id":307929,"date":"2019-09-13T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=307929"},"modified":"2019-09-13T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:00:09","slug":"exemplary-attributes-shakespeare-and-yeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/exemplary-attributes-shakespeare-and-yeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Exemplary Attributes: Shakespeare and Yeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Second Term Coming<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold.\u201d<br \/>\n\t\t<strong>\u2014 from the Second Coming, a poem by W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTweeting constant Trumpian twaddle and twit<br \/>\ntreaties are broken apart, liberal laws suppressed<br \/>\ndemocratic and independent democracy delayed<br \/>\nsheer ignominy is loosed around the world<br \/>\na red tide red hat base shouts insults everywhere<br \/>\ninnocent children are caged, separated indefinitely<br \/>\nHouse bills blocked from coming up for Senate vote<br \/>\nwhile the worst executive orders are issued.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSurely some replacement must be at hand<br \/>\nsurely the Second term he loses command<br \/>\na Second Term? hardly are those words out<br \/>\nwhen \u2018non compos mentis\u2019 comes to mind<br \/>\nsomewhere along the US Mexican border<br \/>\nthe bodies of a father and daughter<br \/>\nlie face down in a rio not so grande<br \/>\nflowing downstream, dead in the water<br \/>\nlike fish in our polluted lakes and rivers<br \/>\nattempts continue to slow medical insurance<br \/>\nfor all and cut millions from education<br \/>\nacross the country hate crimes increase<br \/>\nthe crude campaigner\u2019s comeuppance will come<br \/>\nslithering towards Mar a Lago for a second round.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Second Term Presidential Prophesy<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0\u201cAnd future ages groan for this foul act.\u201d<br \/>\n\t\t<strong>\u2014  from the play Richard II, Act IV, by William Shakespeare<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf you reelect him again let me prophecy<br \/>\nmany American farmers will lose their land<br \/>\nfuture farmers will view this calamity<br \/>\nretired farmers will sigh and understand.<br \/>\nDemocracy shrinks from dalliance with dictators<br \/>\nthe US Constitution twisted rubbed sore and raw<br \/>\na belligerent base belittles sympathetic spectators<br \/>\nmore disorganized policies than you ever saw.<br \/>\nPolitically planned travesties of justice from the AG<br \/>\nmore children found dead near cages at the border<br \/>\na semi permanent plague descends on democracy<br \/>\nassault rifles continue their reign over law and order.<br \/>\nYou voted for democracy\u2019s death among free women and men<br \/>\ndemocracy once dead elects a lying leader as ruler once again.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Shall I Retweet You on a Bummer Day<\/strong><br \/>\n \u201cAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014an excerpt from Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShall I retweet you on a bigly bummer day<br \/>\nwhen I have angry tantrums and am out of sorts<br \/>\nwhen my hairdresser has run out of hair spray<br \/>\nand my golf courses send me loss reports<br \/>\nSpecial Counsel Mueller found obstruction law breaking<br \/>\nin four pages Barr made the report substantially dimmed<br \/>\nit seems like Greenland might be there for the taking<br \/>\nlets stop forest fires by having \u2018the floor well trimmed\u2019<br \/>\nAnd my eternal blingdom kingdom will not fade<br \/>\nnor will I ever lose possession of my tax returns<br \/>\nnor of \u2018fake news\u2019 lying media polls am I afraid<br \/>\nand I\u2019m not concerned if blue California burns<br \/>\nSo long as Moscow Mitch gets aluminum rubles for free<br \/>\nso long live my pal Putin who gives loans and more to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LITERARY NOOK<br \/>\nJoey Connolly<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Special to the Saipan Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joey \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":"<p>The Second Term Coming \u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold.\u201d \u2014 from the Second&#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":[65,23644,22605,5784],"class_list":["post-307929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-house","tag-moscow-mitch","tag-special-counsel-mueller","tag-william-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307929","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=307929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}