{"id":411779,"date":"2024-08-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=411779"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"As-however-is-ever-and-ever-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/As-however-is-ever-and-ever-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"As however is ever and ever is now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whoever would it be might it could it be<\/p>\n

sleepwalking in these forlorn woods<\/p>\n

Tiger? Robin? Little Red Riding Hood?<\/p>\n

monks wearing hoods boys in the hood.<\/p>\n

Whatever will we smell hear and see<\/p>\n

over the river through the gurgly woods<\/p>\n

what will be will be he she it understood<\/p>\n

\u2018could it be yes it could somethings comin<\/p>\n

something good maybe tonight who knows\u2019.<\/p>\n

(Tonight song in the musical WestSide Story)<\/p>\n

Whenever did it happen here now or later<\/p>\n

up a misty mountain in a green rocky glen<\/p>\n

were you scared by duendes women and men<\/p>\n

did they come back to haunt you much later.<\/p>\n

Wherever did it take place behind your face<\/p>\n

in some other reality branes parallel worlds<\/p>\n

inside dark matter dark energy space where<\/p>\n

galaxies collide spread like strings of pearls.<\/p>\n

Why ever did you go there near yet so far<\/p>\n

to a gestalt garden did you ever come back<\/p>\n

from forests through trees an eternal track<\/p>\n

a world piled up resting on turtles\u2019 backs.<\/p>\n

However is it now heifer bull and milk cow<\/p>\n

vinegar honey tits on man many on a sow<\/p>\n

Now the Star of David, Crescent, and Cross row<\/p>\n

in Gaza Moses Muhammad, Buber\u2019s I and Thou.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoever would it be might it could it be sleepwalking in these forlorn woods Tiger?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411779","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}