{"id":308565,"date":"2019-09-24T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=308565"},"modified":"2019-09-24T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:00:51","slug":"pleading-the-45th-president-a-summary-proceeding-preceding-zero-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pleading-the-45th-president-a-summary-proceeding-preceding-zero-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleading the 45th president (a summary proceeding preceding zero quartet)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn the wake of horrible events each act is fortified with significance, unabsorbable as nutrients added to the outside of food: it can\u2019t do any good.\u201d<\/em>
\n\t\t\u2014Kay Ryan, poet and educator, U.S. Poet Laureate 2008 to 2010<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nFLAILING FAILING and FALLING OFF THE WALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

About the U.S.\/Mexican border wall he flailed this way and that
\nhe brought up the subject many times at the beginning of his rule
\neschewing truth and spewing layers of lies filled with falsified fact
\nabout the walls necessity and practicality he failed reality school.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Nevertheless he persisted with hyperbolic fantasy plan after plan
\nwhether to call it barrier, wall, or a fence he just couldn\u2019t decide
\nhe met bipartisan Congressional resistance from woman and man
\nthe fact that he couldn\u2019t make or get Mexico to pay he tried to hide.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Now U.S .taxpayers will pay for the entire wall the cost be damned
\nreplacement fencing sections with a tall metal fence are being erected
\nthings along the wall aren\u2019t going as well as he had poorly planned
\nbasically the whole wall idea by Congress has been totally rejected.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Now he\u203as falling off the wall in many respects more ways than one
\nlocking children up in chain link metal cages under the border sun.<\/p>\n

CHILDREN INSIDE CHAIN LINK CAGES<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Were there chain link fences around your school yard?
\nDon\u2019t they still use high chain link fences around jails?
\nThere\u2019s a new application for them by our POTUS dotard
\nand its not for his campaign manager, lawyers, and pals.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Dogs and children live behind indoor and outdoor chain links
\nall along the US Mexico state of Texas to California borders
\ndogs are in their owners yards, children rot in their own stinks
\ndenied soap and toothbrushes and hidden from news reporters.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0The Republicans blame previous Democratic administrations
\nthey separate children and infants from their immigrant parents
\nthe entire USA and the world at large is aghast at the situation
\nas children\u2019s parents wait many months for asylum clearance.
\nLook! Children inside chain link cages! Charged with innocence?
\nWhat in the name of basic humanity and democracy is the defense?<\/p>\n

A LESS THAN ZERO ANTI HERO<\/strong>
\n\u201cI can\u2019t speak, my tongue is broken; a thin\u00a0flame runs under my skin; seeing nothing\u201d<\/em>
\n\t\t\u2014Sappho, female poet, ancient Greece (610-580 B.C.)<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nHe is much less than zero
\nand what else could be less?
\nwell a set of negative numbers
\na minus sign in front I guess.
\nHe is a big disgrace in my eyes
\nand to much of the entire nation
\nthis man who tweets twit for policy
\nunable to fathom many a situation.
\nHis thoughts go up in smoke and hot air
\nlike Nero fiddling. My father used to swear
\n\u201che doesn\u2019t amount to a piss hole in the snow\u201d
\na joyous day for the USA the day he will go
\nLess than a zero anti hero, what could be less?
\nwhen he\u2019s voted out of office.\u00a0 God Bless.<\/p>\n

ZERO HERO\u2019S BRAIN BED PAN<\/strong>
\n\u2014Epitaph with parts that may make you laugh
\n(being a sonnet style six-minute freestyle rap\u00a0
\nwritten\u00a0between 7:30 and 7:36am on 08\/23\/2019)<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nHe was a hollow and empty man
\nhis mind was like stainless steel
\nit reflected back without feel
\nhe didn\u2019t know what it meant
\nto be behind the wheel
\nof the most powerful democracy engine
\nin the world and showed it every day
\nhe had a need for a brain bed pan
\nto catch the fecal flow from his flatulent
\nfried brain that puts a horrible strain
\non anyone who tried to explain
\nthe ins and outs of an issue
\nwhich couldn\u2019t sink in to his cerebral tissue
\nhe was a very dangerous zero hero.<\/p>\n

Joey ‘Pepe Batbon’ Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong>
\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":"

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