{"id":347725,"date":"2021-07-12T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=347725"},"modified":"2021-07-12T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T20:04:00","slug":"vice-and-virtue-sonnets-on-cleanliness-and-dirtiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vice-and-virtue-sonnets-on-cleanliness-and-dirtiness\/","title":{"rendered":"VICE AND VIRTUE SONNETS\u00a0 On Cleanliness  and Dirtiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Connolly\u2019s Cleanliness Catechism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths or habitation.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Benjamin Franklin, Thirteen Virtues<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThank you, Mother. Wash your hands before dinner<br \/>\nget out of here take those muddy shoes off outside<br \/>\nget in the bathroom right now or you get no chow<br \/>\nthere\u2019s food all over your face have you no pride<br \/>\nwhy should I have to clean it up it is his vomit?<br \/>\nwhen you\u2019re finished go out and help your brother<br \/>\nGet ready for church, take a shower, comb your hair<br \/>\nshine your shoes change your socks and underwear<br \/>\nbrush your teeth and try to help your little brother<br \/>\nthose were every Sunday orders heard from Mother<br \/>\nbut she made the mess, Mom, so let her clean it up<br \/>\ndon\u2019t get any ketchup on that new Sunday dress<br \/>\nhow do I get this bicycle grease off my white shirt<br \/>\nJokers always say cleanliness is next to godliness<br \/>\nwipe your butt and save your soul, I did I confess.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2018Yakety Yak Don\u2019t Talk Back\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTake out the papers and the trash or you don\u2019t get\u00a0no spendin cash\u2026\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u20141959 song by The Coasters.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis room is a filthy mess who did this to it ?<br \/>\nwhy didn\u2019t you gut the fish down by the beach<br \/>\nif you see dog poop do you have to step in it<br \/>\nbrush your tongue before you start your speech<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t think I smell cigarette smoke in the air<br \/>\ndo I need to tell you to help grandma clean today<br \/>\nyour father is very sick seems like you don\u2019t care<br \/>\nhelping with household chores you get no pay<br \/>\nlearn these things in the \u2018school of hard knocks\u2019<br \/>\ndoes helping around the house give you fear<br \/>\nyou know why John Prine sang, \u201cput my socks<br \/>\nin a cedar box just get \u201cem\u201d out of here?<br \/>\nthe car has two flat tires where is our old jack<br \/>\ndon\u2019t argue with me, \u201cyakety yak don\u2019t talk back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey \u2018Pepe Batbon\u2019 Connolly (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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connolly\u2019s Cleanliness Catechism \u201cTolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths or habitation.\u201d \u2014Benjamin Franklin, Thirteen Virtues&#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-347725","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\/347725","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=347725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347725\/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=347725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}