It is interesting that Shakespeare\u2019s exact birthday is unknown. He was baptized Gulielmus (the Latin name for William) Shakespeare on April 26, 1564. It was customary to baptize infants three days after they were born. Notice his death date is known (April 23, 1616). He wrote 154 sonnets and many famous plays. There are controversies over whether he actually wrote them all or served as a stage manager for plays written by a royal prince. I visited his birthplace, school, Anne Hathaway\u2019s cottage, and tomb in Stratford-on-Avon when I attended Wroxton College in 1980.<\/p>\n
Here are two of my Shakespeare sonnets and original parodies printed on the Saipan Tribune<\/em> on April 23, 2018. Both parodies #116 and #130 are\u00a0being spoken by twice-impeached former POTUS DJ Trump, who may soon be a candidate for U.S. President. The sonnets are quite relevant today, given the number of\u00a0lawsuits\u00a0POTUS 45 is facing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will Shakespeare: Sonnet #116<\/strong><\/p>\n Let me not to the marriage of true minds<\/p>\n Admit pediments. Love is not love<\/p>\n Which alters when it alteration finds,<\/p>\n Or bends with the remover to remove<\/p>\n O no, it is an ever-fixed mark<\/p>\n That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<\/p>\n It is the star to every wandering bark,<\/p>\n Whose worth\u2019s unknown, although his height be taken.<\/p>\n Love\u2019s not time\u2019s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<\/p>\n Within his bending sickle\u2019s compass come:<\/p>\n Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks;<\/p>\n But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<\/p>\n If this be error and upon me proved,<\/p>\n I never writ, nor no man ever loved.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I Don\u2019t Accept Marriage of Truth<\/strong><\/p>\n (Joey Connolly\u2019s Parody of Sonnet #116)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I don\u2019t accept the marriage of truth in our minds<\/p>\n despite impediments I implement more bigly lies<\/p>\n which alter facts to fiction when any facts it finds<\/p>\n or twist the truth with repeated constant denies.<\/p>\n Oh yes it is one of my favorite strategic tricks<\/p>\n I tell lies about lies when truths are unshaken<\/p>\n let spokespersons \u2018alternative facts\u2019 enter the mix<\/p>\n the effects unknown but at face value will be taken.<\/p>\n Lies are a Trumpery tool trick using timed WH leaks<\/p>\n Mueller collects and gathers them in and then some<\/p>\n lies pile up on page after page by the days and weeks<\/p>\n then uncovered and exposed in a grand jury room.<\/p>\n If my lies detrimental to democracy are ever proved<\/p>\n then I never uttered one and Mt. Rushmore moved.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will Shakespeare: Sonnet #130<\/strong><\/p>\n My mistress\u2019 eyes are nothing like the sun;<\/p>\n Coral is far more red than her lips\u2019 red;<\/p>\n If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;<\/p>\n If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head;<\/p>\n I have seen roses damasked, red and white,<\/p>\n But no such roses see I in her cheeks,<\/p>\n And in some perfumes is there more delight<\/p>\n Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.<\/p>\n I love to hear her speak, yet well I know<\/p>\n That music hath a more pleasing sound.<\/p>\n I grant I never saw a goddess go;<\/p>\n My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.<\/p>\n And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare<\/p>\n As any she belied with false compare.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My Tax Returns Will Never See<\/strong><\/p>\n (Joey Connolly\u2019s Parody of Sonnet #130)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My tax returns will never see the light of day<\/p>\n I dread not rubles or ties with Russian red<\/p>\n my money stashed on Wall St. every which way<\/p>\n its whereabouts known inside my dyed head.<\/p>\n I have rubles galore unmasked Russian red and white<\/p>\n haven\u2019t seen any in my accounts for months and weeks<\/p>\n I\u2019ll have to have an oligarch over for drinks tonight<\/p>\n give him some old Trump vodka and see if he leaks.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll roll my rubles over in some small Swiss bourse<\/p>\n time to lay low stop contacting my Russian oligarchs<\/p>\n now time for a few rounds on my Mar A Lago course<\/p>\n greenback leisure for us mighty plutocratic monarchs.<\/p>\n Yes, my friend Vladimir Putin thinks my brain is \u2018rare\u2019<\/p>\n As usual only with himself does he care to compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is interesting that Shakespeare\u2019s exact birthday is unknown. 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