{"id":328596,"date":"2020-08-25T06:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=328596"},"modified":"2020-08-25T06:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:01:01","slug":"connolly-offers-vivid-imagistic-doggerel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/connolly-offers-vivid-imagistic-doggerel\/","title":{"rendered":"Connolly Offers Vivid Imagistic Doggerel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T\u2019was the Night Before X-Mask<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nT\u2019was hot days in August during COVID 19<br \/>\nhumans were social distancing all through the house<br \/>\nmany old folks were practicing self-quarantine<br \/>\nexcept for one very well fed little brown mouse.<br \/>\nWhen what the heck did our virus weary ears hear<br \/>\nbut promises of an old drug called Remdesivir\u00a0<br \/>\nyet later many major epidemiologists<br \/>\nsaid benefits for Covid 19 were unclear.<br \/>\nWashable masks were hung by the door, dry and clean<br \/>\nsome light blue, homemade, some a sight to be seen.<br \/>\nMost children were sleeping, with ear buds, in their beds<br \/>\nwhile visions of homeschooling run amuck in their heads.<br \/>\nNext day on TVs there was such a kerfuffle<br \/>\nwhen 45 appeared with no mask to muffle.<br \/>\nAbout then my smart phone Android started to rock<br \/>\nwith messages and memes on FB and Tik Tok.\u00a0<br \/>\nThen a little man came on quite bright and real quick<br \/>\nI knew in a moment that he knew every trick<br \/>\nabout pandemics and what it meant to be sick.<br \/>\nDr. Fauci spoke calmly and was ready to show<br \/>\nthe science of coronavirus from head to toe,<br \/>\nAIDS research, epidemic problems from the past.<br \/>\nTrump couldn\u2019t stand his intellect, Fauci won\u2019t last.<br \/>\nMore rapid than Tweets, off camera, Trump took aim<br \/>\nto put Dr. Fauci down, jealous of his acclaim.<br \/>\nTrump took hydroxychloroquine, says he\u2019s \u201cstill here.\u201d<br \/>\nwhile Dr. Fauci says we will have to wait for a year.<br \/>\n45 suggests Clorox injections? Or radioactive lights?<br \/>\nDemon seed? Quacks seem part of his virus fights.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2014\u201cGod bless us everyone.\u201d Tiny Tim, in Charles Dickens\u00a0novella, A Christmas Carol, written in 1843.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u2019was the Night Before X-Mask \u00a0 T\u2019was hot days in August during COVID 19 humans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":327594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-328596","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\/328596","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=328596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}