A sonnet series inspired by Benjamin Franklin\u2019s The Thirteen Virtues in Poor Richard\u2019s Almanac.<\/p>\n
The Virtue of Order<\/strong> (*A quote also found in Benjamin\u00a0Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1736, “He that lives upon\u00a0Hope, dies Farting.” SBD means Silent But Deadly.)\u00a0 *** A sonnet series inspired by Benjamin Franklin\u2019s The Thirteen Virtues in Poor Richard\u2019s Almanac. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":331240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-342392","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\/342392","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=342392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cLet all things have their places, let each part of your business have its time.\u201d
\n\u2014Benjamin Franklin (1706 -1790)\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\nIn order to get things in order one needs thought
\nrectifying procedures puts systems in place
\npay close attention to the order that is sought
\nbe a short order organizer in almost every case
\norder ham and eggs sometimes instead of bacon
\ngive just straight facts to the newspaper reporter
\nlet people know it is your seat they are taking
\nmake haste moving away from the SBD farter*
\nbe honest and prompt filing your income taxes
\nput dishes back in the same place in the cupboard
\nserving meals on time will quickly move forward
\nplace a low priority on removing your ear waxes
\nlast but not least use alphabetical arrangement
\nthings may fall in order without estrangement.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Vice of Disorder<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nMore often than not my desk is in disorder
\nmy wife says clean it up or she\u2019ll throw it out
\nguess I need some mental magic kind of sorter
\nbut my mind is often in disorder no doubt
\nI\u2019m ordered to do \u2018dat\u2019 and ordered to do \u2018dis\u2019
\nwhile I\u2019m content with life\u2019s disorder as it is
\ntaking things as they come randomly and amiss
\nhappy with the chaos of pop pop fizz fizz
\nstrolling and lolling around amidst clutter
\nignoring all the trolls and disorder criticism
\nis easy for me like a hot knife through butter
\nbetween order and disorder remains a schism
\nin 45\u2019s 01\/06\/21 speech to the mob we heard him
\nrant on the \u2018Vote Steal\u2019 reductio ad absurdum*
\nrepeating \u201c argumentum ad ignorantium \u201d.
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\n(*reductio ad absurdum is Latin for \u201creduction to absurdity.\u201d In logic, it means a form of refutation showing contradictory or absurd consequences following upon premises as a matter of logical necessity.)<\/p>\n
\nJoey 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":"