{"id":327036,"date":"2020-07-27T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=327036"},"modified":"2020-07-27T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T20:00:26","slug":"tragic-tales-of-tweeter-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tragic-tales-of-tweeter-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Tales of Tweeter Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I appropriated the title and the 13th line of the following sonnet from English poet Richard Lovelace (1617-1657).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018The Asp Doth on His Feeder Feed\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTell me not to tweet and I get unkind<br \/>\nSo from the White House I call a dump<br \/>\nI harass media with my unquiet mind<br \/>\nWarring against truth I lie and jump<br \/>\nTruth, my lawyer Giuliani says, is not truth\u00a0<br \/>\nI lie to foes who cross the East lawn field<br \/>\nWith vulgar mouth spout language uncouth<br \/>\nCampaigning, haranguing under an eagle shield<br \/>\nMy insecurity and demagoguery is such<br \/>\nThere are few issues I\u2019m explicitly for<br \/>\nI love myself more than country so much<br \/>\nEach day I love my self, more and more<br \/>\n\u201cStone walls do not a prison make, nor<br \/>\niron bars a cage.\u201d<br \/>\nI will commute and pardon my gang<br \/>\nwith righteous rage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>They are Leaving Me<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026and do not remember that sometime<br \/>\nthey put themselves in danger to take<br \/>\nbread at my hand; and now they range,<br \/>\nbusily seeking with a continual change.\u201d<br \/>\n\t   <strong> \u2014Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503? &#8211; 1542)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThey are leaving me, those that used to seek<br \/>\nI see the polls dropping week after week<br \/>\nEconomic recovery is taking too much time<br \/>\nSometimes I raise my campaign voice in anger<br \/>\nSpeaking of things as through streets they range<br \/>\nTalking of systemic racism and need for change<br \/>\nIt is not a dream and I\u2019m slowly awakening<br \/>\nAs the nation turns pandemic eyes against me<br \/>\nI\u2019m the victim of a Democratic and media hoax<br \/>\nBy the scientific community and even Dr. Fauci<br \/>\nRepublican wheeler dealers have some rotten folks<br \/>\nBut since I\u2019m the best ever and still honestly serve<br \/>\nThe base will come back; I\u2019ll get what I deserve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trumpty Dumpty Falling Down<\/strong><br \/>\nA haiku headline\/senryu sonnet on it<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA million book bump<br \/>\n\u2018Too Much and Never Enough\u2019<br \/>\nfrom niece Mary Trump.<br \/>\nFull of true Trumpty stuff<br \/>\n\u2018Too Much and Never Enough\u2019<br \/>\nmillion seller calls his bluff.<br \/>\nPrince of Malfeasance<br \/>\ninept in his incompetence<br \/>\ndemanding obeisance.\u00a0<br \/>\nTotally lacking in empathy<br \/>\nsadistic malevolence prevails<br \/>\ntea and sympathy fails.<br \/>\nAshes of loathing in polls<br \/>\na lonely soul rakes coals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connoly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appropriated the title and the 13th line of the following sonnet from English poet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":321680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-327036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327036","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=327036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}