{"id":323872,"date":"2020-05-29T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=323872"},"modified":"2020-05-29T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T20:00:27","slug":"t-o-a-s-t-trilogy-telling-old-age-sonnet-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/t-o-a-s-t-trilogy-telling-old-age-sonnet-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"T.O.A.S.T. Trilogy: Telling Old Age Sonnet Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Dreams Get Toasted<\/strong><\/p>\n

My dreams have all been toasted
\na bevy of beauties all buttered up
\nbuddies have pranked and roasted
\nme for days, I feel like a lost pup
\nmy dogs are tired socks all stink
\nshoelaces broken sweat in my eyes
\npollen allergies make it hard to blink
\nmosquitoes draw blood on my thighs
\nhot humid bummer summer for sure
\nt shirt sticks to me I\u2019m sopping wet
\noh for some well water cold and pure
\nactually I\u2019ll take any drink I can get
\nsome of my toasted dreams are French
\nnow to get rid of that underarm stench.
\n\u00a0
\nCotton Candy at Cupid County Fair<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nScent of fried chicken and waffles under my nose
\ncaf\u00e9 au lait and beignet, hot corndogs came next
\nour love was hornier and thornier than a wild rose
\nas it quickly soared and soured we tried our best
\nme a prince of fools you quite sober and straight
\na growing young chick still close to mother\u2019s nest
\nso we went arm and arm to the fair on our last date
\nwhen we came back I turned left you turned right\u00a0
\nno one could have ever predicted our future or fate
\nwe had no plans for heaven or hell for day or night
\nas we swam into ecstasy in that hot summers air
\nthe sexual peaks we reached gave us both a fright
\nCupid only knows what arrows he shot and where
\nwe ate pink cotton candy at the Cupid County fair.
\n\u00a0
\nNot Donne Yet No Woman is a Peninsula\u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nChicken coops aren\u2019t pig pens no woman is a peninsula
\nsailing around John Donne\u2019s \u2018No Man Is An Island\u2019
\nmade my older brother Peter smile and keep smiling
\nif you were very fat and floating around on sea water
\nmight you at least be considered a very small island
\nnot every dog has its day nor every cat live nine lives
\ntoo much smoke and mirrors bees can\u2019t find their hives
\nyou probably could roller skate in a buffalo herd
\nif you were an 18 wheeler or a big Kenworth diesel
\nbut could you ever paint like Vermeer or Paul Cezanne
\nwith all their colors on your pallet and a large size easel
\nturkeys will run through the straw and fields of corn
\nyou can\u2019t catch chicken pox from a skunk or weasel
\nbut you can eat canned peaches as sure as your born.<\/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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