Plop
\nAnother ripe avocado drops
\nits ass on the green grass.
\nRats scurry to eat the deep purple treat
\nfor there are tree owners to beat,
\nto tease as they nibble, not devour,
\non a battlefield where they got power.
\nWhy do they only take a bite or two,
\nleaving the rest for us to eschew? <\/p>\n
\u201cEgads, you rats, scat!\u201d <\/p>\n
Another cado suffers a horrible rat bite
\nmaking it a most unappetizing sight.
\nThe husband says to the wife,
\n\u201cHoney, this is no kind of life.
\nFrom now on, we pick them all green,
\nwait for them to ripen whole and clean.\u201d <\/p>\n
No more drops, no more plops.
\nThe family firmly declared, \u201cThis is our crop!\u201d
\nThe rats laughed. They didn\u2019t care.
\nThey just went elsewhere.
\nTo the store? No, next door.<\/p>\n
Bob Coldeen (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong> Plop Another ripe avocado drops its ass on the green grass. Rats scurry to eat…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":331241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[208,26,1994,406],"class_list":["post-373064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-bob-coldeen","tag-cnmi","tag-kspn","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373064","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=373064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBob Coldeen is a longtime TV journalist in the CNMI and was the news director\/reporter of KSPN 2.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"