{"id":398648,"date":"2023-09-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=398648"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"LITERARY-NOOK-Enescent-sonnets-for-September","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/LITERARY-NOOK-Enescent-sonnets-for-September\/","title":{"rendered":"LITERARY NOOK: Enescent sonnets for September"},"content":{"rendered":"

A senescent sign off sheet on standard elementary particles<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

What are the last seconds of thought before we go<\/p>\n

Oh my Oh wow! Holy crap! There\u2019s nothing there.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute there is something, I can\u2019t see a thing<\/p>\n

There is a dim light Oh oh now the lights gone out<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the Big Bang, oh it was just a little blink<\/p>\n

All the frozen strawberries are melting<\/p>\n

Neutrinos are knifing through the ice<\/p>\n

I still can\u2019t see or feel a single thing<\/p>\n

All my red and white corpuscles sing<\/p>\n

All those people who kept on saying<\/p>\n

We tried to show you tried to tell you<\/p>\n

Are underground or burned to a crisp<\/p>\n

Longevity is but a will-o-the-wisp<\/p>\n

Adios amigo see you down the road<\/p>\n

Goodbye you all and to my ego too<\/p>\n

A supernova is about to explode<\/p>\n

Gravitational waves coming through<\/p>\n

Lights in the sky coming through the dark<\/p>\n

A dog pees on a flowering bush in the park.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/h4>\n

At 73 senile old me<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

I read this meme on FB: \u201cThey say 70% of the<\/p>\n

population is stupid. I\u2019m so glad I am part of the<\/p>\n

other 40%\u201d. It took me a little while to get it.<\/p>\n

I must be somewhat near to the 73rd percentile<\/p>\n

73 years of age showing signs of being senile<\/p>\n

And getting worse mile after mile after mile<\/p>\n

Stumbling along life\u2019s slippery and rocky road<\/p>\n

Never in denial of poor mathematical ability<\/p>\n

Possessing at most a very minimal capability<\/p>\n

In a world full of jokers facing partial reality<\/p>\n

Doubling down daily on nonsensical doggerel<\/p>\n

Rhyming off the top of my head my specialty<\/p>\n

An aging Boomer retaining a sense of humor<\/p>\n

Somewhere up in my now foggy gray matter<\/p>\n

I hearken back to Lewis Carroll\u2019s Mad Hatter<\/p>\n

Down some ridiculous rhyming rabbit hole<\/p>\n

Living on an earth of mirth events threshold<\/p>\n

Entangled theoretically in a black moldy hole<\/p>\n

Relying on the totality of neural networks sum<\/p>\n

To pass their way through my corpus callosum<\/p>\n

Where queries about string theory find me dumb.<\/p>\n

N.B. birthdays on Sept. 14: Classical music composer, Michael Haydn (brother of Joseph Haydn) on 09\/14\/ 1737 in Austria. He wrote 20 symphonies.<\/p>\n

Ed King, American guitarist for the rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ed wrote \u201cSweet Home Alabama.\u201d Born on 09\/14\/1949 the same day and year as Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly, Tinian Poet Laureate 2018.<\/p>\n

Joey has written more than 400 anti-Trump sonnets from 2016 to present. Maestro para Tinian yan Saipan. Composed thousands of haiku and senryu published in anthologies in Canada, Japan, the U.S., and online.<\/p>\n

More than 1,000 sonnets since the \u201980s on topics from A to Z published in the Saipan Tribune. Topics have ranged from Food, Fears, Fun, Asparagus to Zucchini, the Cosmos, Senescence, Abecedarian, Villanelle, Limericks, Raps, free style verse, parodies of Shakespeare, classical to modern poets, and his love for Tinian and the CNMI. He has a penchant for rhyme, like all the time.<\/p>\n

On turning 74 I\u2019m raring to go for many more.<\/p>\n

Joey aka Pepe Batbon Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Joey aka Pepe Batbon Connolly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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